🇪🇺⚔️🇷🇺 POLITICO: Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia

Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies.

Ideas range from joint offensive cyber operations against Russia, and faster and more coordinated attribution of hybrid attacks by quickly pointing the finger at Moscow, to surprise NATO-led military exercises, according to two senior European government officials and three EU diplomats

“The Russians are constantly testing the limits — what is the response, how far can we go?” Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže noted in an interview. A more “proactive response is needed,” she told POLITICO. “And it’s not talking that sends a signal — it’s doing.”

“Overall, Europe and the alliance must ask themselves how long we are willing to tolerate this type of hybrid warfare ... [and] whether we should consider becoming more active ourselves in this area,” German State Secretary for Defense Florian Hahn said last week.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-thinks-the-unthinkable-retaliating-against-russia-nato-cyber-hybrid/

The fuck is going on here lol 🤣

🇫🇷 France is introducing voluntary military service for 18 and 19-year-olds.

President Emmanuel Macron wants young people to be "ready to stand up" amid concerns over Russian threats towards Europe.

Service would last for 10 months and volunteers would only be deployed in France.

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