Opinions

Western leaders are focused on Russian military deployments, but the Kremlin’s hybrid war against Ukraine and the West will continue without pause.

Russian propagandists sometimes admit their disdain for the truth, but Western audiences remain vulnerable to their work.

They operate unofficially, without a flag, covered with a veil of silence and secret. Called a private army of Vladimir Putin, they appear in different parts of the world that are marked with conflicts, to pursue the Kremlin’s aims, even though Moscow officially denies any links with them.

The country’s anti-American opposition is exploiting a strategic mess that it helped to create. Russia’s disinformation strategists can be well pleased with the current political mood in Slovakia.

The Kremlin and its agents are peddling false arguments to amplify the case for war in Ukraine. They are rice-paper thin.

Leftwing silence on Kremlin neo-colonialism is striking and shameful. Imagine that Britain, under an authoritarian leadership yearning for past glories, was trying to rebuild its empire.

Russia’s threats against Ukraine have helped reveal its sympathizers in south-eastern Europe. There’s a lot of them.

While Russia continues to build up its military forces on the Ukrainian border (see EDM, December 13, 2021 and January 20, 2022), the Kremlin has also stepped up the war against its southwestern neighbor in the information domain.

Ever since 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin has weaponized history as part of his hybrid war against Ukraine.