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Nato is considering being “more aggressive” in responding to Russia’s cyber attacks, sabotage and airspace violations, according to the alliance’s most senior military officer.

Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone told the Financial Times that the western military alliance was looking at stepping up its response to hybrid warfare from Moscow.

“We are studying everything . . . On cyber, we are kind of reactive. Being more aggressive or being proactive instead of reactive is something that we are thinking about,” said Dragone, who is chair of Nato’s military committee.

Europe has been hit by numerous hybrid war incidents — some attributed to Russia and others unclear — from the cutting of cables in the Baltic Sea to cyber attacks across the continent.

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Dragone said that a “pre-emptive strike” could be considered a “defensive action”, but added: “It is further away from our normal way of thinking and behaviour.”

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A Baltic diplomat said: “If all we do is continue being reactive, we just invite Russia to keep trying, keep hurting us. Especially when hybrid warfare is asymmetric — it costs them little, and us a lot. We need to try to be more inventive.”

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[–] wooffersyt@lemmings.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I swear, our world is run by complete morons who are just operating on auto-pilot.

If NATO was always going to go to war with Russia, why did they let the Ukrainians die without their help?

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I can think of several reasons:

  • get information on Russian forces
  • lower Russian morale
  • let Ukrainians die first because it's more profitable
  • make Ukraine a debt-slave state to its NATO sponsors
  • go in guns blazing in order to save Ukraine so NATO gets good press
  • force Ukraine to sign all sorts of deals that will leave the country at the complete mercy of big western corpos
[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

also: field-test new weaponry

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 30 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Stupid to talk about pre-emptive strikes. This plays right into the Russian propaganda narrative that NATO is an offensive threat. Just match them one for one on each cyber attack, shoot down all drone incursions and reply in kind with our own, and for each cut cable we sink the ship that did it.

[–] wooffersyt@lemmings.world 5 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, NATO is run by absolute idiots.

"Pre-emptive strike" AFTER Ukraine has been routed. Real brilliant move.