Aljazeera
October 27, 2025
“Europe is no more ready today to face Russia’s military advances than it was in 1939 as Nazi troops were at the door,” said Joseph Fitsanakis, assistant director at the Center for Applied Intelligence in Coastal Carolina University, one of a handful of US institutions teaching intelligence and national security.
“Front-line states like Finland, Poland and the Baltics have no illusions about what is coming,” he told Al Jazeera. “However, I fear that, plagued by internal divisions and victimised by relentless Russian disinformation operations, Western European populations are not even moderately awake to the dangers that threaten their security.”
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“We must not sit back and assume that a possible Russian attack will not come until 2029 at the earliest,” he told lawmakers, saying Europe faced “a new quality of confrontation”.
Europeans call the “period of emergency” by another name – “phase zero” – defined as “testing responses, gathering intel and blurring civilian-military lines”, said Demetries Andrew Grimes, a decorated veteran US special forces commander.
“Like the Russian intelligence community, the Russian military is actively preparing for war with NATO,” Fitsanakis said.
In recent weeks, the Kremlin has rejected accusations that Russia is behind drone incursions while accusing Europe of stoking hysteria.
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