Comment on Britons should prepare for conscription if Russia hits Nato, warns ex-Army chief
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 9 months agoRussia will not be seeking to get a firm NATO response in the form of troops mobilised; they will be seeking to carefully undermine confidence in article 5 with small offenses that “should” trigger it but (they hope) don’t, causing fractures in the alliance that will allow them to be more brazen. They don’t want to deal with blocs of countries, they have more leverage in 1:1 negotiations and will seek ways to force more of these on NATO members.
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 9 months ago
More snake than bear.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
They’ve always been like this. Their spy game has always been better than ours, where we excelled at cryptography