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07-08-2022, 11:06 AM
https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-...-next-one/
Moscow had high hopes that the crisis surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan would escalate. Of course, in such a situation, Moscow would not intervene directly. But it would not appeal for de-escalation. When Moscow officially announced that China “has the right to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity”, it did not mean diplomacy. It is “inciting” China to raise its army and attack Taiwan with all its might.
In another crisis, however, Russia interfered more directly, expecting the same outcome – a military conflict. In the recent crisis in the north of Kosovo, Russia, like a vulture, saw a chance to flare up the conflict, and preferably bloodshed.
In those few days around 1 August, when the Kosovo authorities announced the confiscation of license plates and identity cards from local Serbs and when local Serbs organised roadblocks, Russia carried out a large-scale and very aggressive hybrid operation. Its goal was to provoke a conflict, cause bloodshed, and then trigger Serbia’s reaction and the involvement of NATO (KFOR) in the armed conflict.
This operation was conducted mainly by issuing a large amount of disinformation in a short period, with the “collusion” of people from the highest levels of government in Moscow.
Moscow had high hopes that the crisis surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan would escalate. Of course, in such a situation, Moscow would not intervene directly. But it would not appeal for de-escalation. When Moscow officially announced that China “has the right to take all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity”, it did not mean diplomacy. It is “inciting” China to raise its army and attack Taiwan with all its might.
In another crisis, however, Russia interfered more directly, expecting the same outcome – a military conflict. In the recent crisis in the north of Kosovo, Russia, like a vulture, saw a chance to flare up the conflict, and preferably bloodshed.
In those few days around 1 August, when the Kosovo authorities announced the confiscation of license plates and identity cards from local Serbs and when local Serbs organised roadblocks, Russia carried out a large-scale and very aggressive hybrid operation. Its goal was to provoke a conflict, cause bloodshed, and then trigger Serbia’s reaction and the involvement of NATO (KFOR) in the armed conflict.
This operation was conducted mainly by issuing a large amount of disinformation in a short period, with the “collusion” of people from the highest levels of government in Moscow.
