{"id":128867,"date":"2024-05-06T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128867"},"modified":"2024-05-06T17:32:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T21:32:48","slug":"ft-russia-plotting-sabotage-across-europe-intelligence-agencies-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128867","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Russia plotting sabotage across Europe, intelligence agencies warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that Russia is plotting violent acts of sabotage across the continent as it commits to a course of permanent conflict with the west.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, with little apparent concern about causing civilian fatalities, intelligence officials believe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the Kremlin\u2019s agents have a long history of such operations \u2014 and launched attacks sporadically in Europe in recent years \u2014 evidence is mounting of a more aggressive and concerted effort, according to assessments from three different European countries shared with the Financial Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c88509f9-c9bd-46f4-8a5c-9b2bdd3c3dd3\">Read it all<\/a> (registration or subscription).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings, arson attacks and damage to infrastructure on European soil, directly and via proxies, with little apparent concern about causing civilian fatalities, intelligence officials believe.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tnk6bFTII5\">https:\/\/t.co\/tnk6bFTII5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/michaeldweiss\/status\/1787483399344599048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European intelligence agencies have warned their governments that Russia is plotting violent acts of sabotage across the continent as it commits to a course of permanent conflict with the west.\u00a0 Russia has already begun to more actively prepare covert bombings,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=128867\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,144,119,151,479],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128870,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128867\/revisions\/128870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}