Putin’s Shadow War Against Europe Is Getting More Intense

Grueling wars are now the global norm. For years, a brutal conflict has consumed Ukraine. For months, a grinding faceoff has convulsed the Persian Gulf. Now Russia is escalating a different kind of fight: a shadow war of violent, quasi-covert coercion against Europe. The continent, once a paragon of post-Cold War peace, faces a dangerous struggle, just as ambiguous signals from Washington make Moscow harder to deter.