The 26-year-old Russian-Ukrainian was arrested in his hotel near Charles de Gaulle airport on June 3, after an accident while making explosives. He was planning to target a hardware store north of Paris, as part of a sabotage campaign orchestrated by Moscow.
  • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    I don’t understand how shit like this does not already warrant to enact article 5. Russia sends literal sabotage units to us to physically destroy shit, as well as assassination squads to murder people. Those are and should be seen as direct attacks to our countries.

    • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
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      3 days ago

      What would be the benefit of open war against Russia, especially if NATO were to start it? I see absolutely nothing.

      There’s a lot of room for additional sanctions against Russia too. The EU is still importing fossil gas and nuclear fuel, for example. Countries like Cyprus and the UK can probably still freeze additional Russian funds. […]

      • jumjummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The best sanctions we could impose is a complete shutdown of all of Russia’s Internet access. You’d see massive reduction in disinformation across the web.

        • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Russia emits misinformation, Russia attacks through Interwebs, Russia employs espionage, Russia sabotages. But Russia has not performed a full-scale military attack on any NATO country. And unless they do, in the eye of any onlooker, NATO would be the one to start the altercation.

            • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
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              3 days ago

              Ukraine is not a NATO country, for better or worse. (It’s anyone’s guess whether Russia would have attacked Ukraine if they were a NATO member.)

    • AlexisFR@jlai.luEnglish
      52·
      3 days ago

      I like not having to survive a nuclear apocalypse, thank you.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      61·
      3 days ago

      because politics, that would anger china and we’ve made the absolutely galaxybrained decision to make ourselves basically entirely reliant upon that one country to survive :)))

  • jimmy90@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    i guess the evidence of massive coordination by Moscow was at the end of the article?

    this would be a most flagrant act of war against France if so, no?

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    If the best that a vast Russian sabotage campaign can do is to send idiots to try making TATP in a hotel room, they’re worse off than I thought. The only advantage that stuff has is that it’s very easy to make, but if you’re in a position to need things to be that easy you’re not in a position to control it well enough to avoid having it blow up in your hands. And aside from losing some fingers it’s not really something you want to do in a hotel room where everyone’s going to hear the loud bang and your screams of pain.

    If it’s any kind of campaign it’s stochastic terrorism, I guess.