NATO could start to make a more “aggressive” response to Russia’s hybrid attacks which has includes sabotage, airspace violations and spying off the coast of the UK and attacking an RAF flight with a laser.
Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, who chairs NATO’s Military Committee told the Financial Times that they are reassessing how they are confronting Russia’s hybrid threats which have escalated across Europe.
Russia is also behind explosions and fires which includes a fire at an East London Ukrainian warehouse.
In recent years hybrid attacked have intensified which includes cyber-attacks, underwater infrastructure was damaged in the Baltic Sea that all points to Russia.
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Admiral Dragone told the FT, “We are studying everything … On cyber, we are kind of reactive. Being more aggressive or being proactive instead of reactive is something that we are thinking about.
He suggested NATO could launch a “pre-emptive strike” that could be viewed as “defensive action” adding that this approach is “further away from our normal way of thinking and behavior.”
He added, “Being more aggressive compared with the aggressivity of our counterpart could be an option. [The issues are] legal framework, jurisdictional framework, who is going to do this?” but these changes require careful consideration of legal an international limits.
He said that NATO’s Baltic Sentry which is an operation that deploys allied ships, aircraft and naval drones which monitors critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea amid the underwater cables having been cut between 2023 and 2024.
He told the FT, “From the beginning of Baltic Sentry, nothing has happened. So this means that this deterrence is working.”
A Baltic diplomat told the FT, “If all we do is continue being reactive, we just invite Russia to keep trying, keep hurting us.
“Hybrid warfare is asymmetric — it costs them little, and us a lot. We need to be more inventive.”
Denis Gonchar, Russia‘s ambassador to Belgium, accused the alliance of “intimidating its population with the Kremlin’s non-existent plans to attack.”
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