As a hot war rages between Russia and Ukraine, there are fears Europe has slipped into a new Cold War.

Holes mysteriously found cut in army base fences.

An alleged plot to assassinate Germany’s top weapons manufacturer.

Phone taps on a high-level Luftwaffe call. These aren’t storylines lifted from a 1960s spy novel but real-life events in Germany, this year.

Not all of these events can definitively be blamed on Moscow, but Germany is on heightened alert for possible acts of Russian sabotage, because of Berlin’s continued military support for Kyiv.

As a hot war rages between Russia and Ukraine, there are fears that Europe has slipped into a new Cold War.

  • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    163·
    3 months ago

    Cold War 1 never ended, the west got a kick out of telling everyone that they won and took their eye off the ball while Russia continued playing.

    There are more Russian agents in the US now than ever before and I guarantee that Europe is getting the same treatment. Small amounts of spending can yield outsized results for Russia, they learned this 50+y ago and are continuing to act on it.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    3 months ago

    A picture of an arms dealer, the German chancellor, and the Danish prime minister who almost definitely has nothing to do with the subject of the article is quite the choice… 😄