from Hacker News

Russia may attempt to attack Europe next winter

by thatwasunusual on 12/24/23, 9:30 AM with 14 comments

• by tomohawk on 12/24/23, 1:09 PM

  Russia's been attacking Europe for a long time now. Not all attacks are kinetic. From using Wagner to destabilize the middle east and Africa, leading to mass displacement of people towards Europe, to cyber and economic gambits.

• by FirmwareBurner on 12/24/23, 10:55 AM

  I had to double check this was not an Onion article since it's full of FUD. Russia doesn't have the muscle now for a military attack on Europe when it's still stuck in Eastern Ukraine.

  Plus, Russia is already attacking Europe and has been for a long time, except not militarily but electronically, politically and economically: gas distribution disruption, cyber attacks, intervening in elections, lobbying for fossil fuels and right wing parties, weaponizing migrants at EU borders, etc.

  That's the kind of warfare Russia does in Europe and it's more effective than sending things that go boom as those can more easily be countered. Political destabilization is more difficult to counter.

• by fithisux on 12/24/23, 2:54 PM

  Of course this is not a serious article but mostly some kind of government FUD to increase prices "because of a looming danger".

  Been there, done that.

  Expensive food, expensive electricity and new multimillionaires having fun with "the russian danger"