Nuclear Age 3: Russia’s Secret War With The West Has Begun | GRAVITAS | WION

our top story tonight is about a chilling reality taking shape across Europe and Beyond it's about a new phase that some experts and leaders are calling nuclear age three no this is not a return to the Cold War but a more complex and perilous chapter the dawn of nuclear ag3 is here and it's a time of uncertainty danger and profound challenges on scales unimaginable and at its heart lies what appears to be a secret war waged in the shadows by Russia challenging the West perhaps put together and masterminded by none other than the Russian President

Vladimir Putin a former KGB operative sending a message that the West support for Ukraine will come at a cost let's just join the dots for you over the past year a series of seemingly unrelated incidents have struck across Europe a DHL cargo plane crashed near the capital of Lithuania drones sported spotted near us air bases in the UK telecommunications cables cut in the Baltic Sea there's a lot that's been happening explosions at weapons facilities in Wales aren attacks targeting Ukrainian linked businesses in the UK bomb scares hobbling London from Gatwick Airport to the US Embassy

now these events May appear isolated at first glance but put together they perhaps paint a pattern a disturbing one one of deliberate sabotage according to Security Experts and intelligence agencies in fact as per reports in a speech in October the MI5 director General Ken McCullum described these events as a quote unquote concerted campaign by Russian military intelligence to destabilize your employing acts of sabotage aren and cyber attacks as per reports Bruno Cal the head of Germany's foreign intelligence service shares similar views SC reportedly warned that such hybrid aggression risks triggering NATO's Mutual defense Clause Article

5 and what exactly is Article 5 just to put it simply it calls on all members to assist any other NATO countries under attack so this is not just about physical destruction it's also about psychological warfare shaking the confidence of countries and creating chaos now this strategy of disruption is reportedly not unprecedented as per reports during the Cold War the KGB carried out operations designed to S Discord in the west from propaganda campaigns to sabotage plots like the aborted operations Sedar a KV plot to disrupt the US and Canada's power supply by destroying Hydro electric

dams and oil pipelines and bombing the port of New York Bart experts said today's tactics are more Insidious Russia does not need agents or large scale operations instead it outsources its aggression to individuals and groups willing to carry out aen hacking or even assassination for modest sums for example last month a 23-year-old British citizen pleaded guilty to an aen attack on a Ukrainian linked business in March prosecutors have reportedly linked the case to Russia in October a 20-year-old British citizen reportedly admitted conducting Preparatory and aggravated Arsen in relation to the same attack he was reportedly

accused of carrying out the attack on behalf of the Russian mercenary group Wagner according to a study by a British defense and security Think Tank acts of sabotage are carried out for as little as $50 per person the study further highlighted that the low cost and the high impact of these operations make them an effective tool for Russia to create plausible deniability while achieving its goals adding that this pattern of out sourcing is becoming the Hallmark of modern Russian aggression but why now is the immediate question you analysts believe this escalation correlates with the West's

continued support for Ukraine as military aid to Kiev has increased so has moscow's hostility they said that in this war every Western action from sending arms to imposing sanctions is perceived as direct aggression by targeting critical infrastructure Logistics hubs even public confidence Russia is executing attacks in a tactful and discreet manner be it the disruption of Television satellites across Europe the ransomware attack on the NHS and the assassination attempt on a German arms executive all of these incidents are reportedly calculated moves to make the cost of supporting Ukraine seem way too high and this Shadow

war is taking place reportedly against the backdrop of a alarming developments in the global nuclear landscape in a speech on Wednesday Admiral Tony Rakin chief of the UK defense staff warned that the world is entering a quote unquote third nuclear age adding that the cold War's balance of Terror based on deterrence and the subsequent era of disarmament have given way to a far more dangerous reality in his speech radican reportedly highlighted that China is rapidly expanding its nuclear Arsenal as per reports China is aiming to reach parity with the United States and Russia by 2030

radican reportedly further said that combined with the persistent threats posed by North Korea's missile program and Iran's nuclear Ambitions the picture becomes even more complex adding that the world is now more contested ambiguous and dangerous than at any time in recent memory and nuclear weapons are once again Central to Global instability leaving the world on the brink of a third nuclear age so where does this leave the West some experts argue that the cost of supporting Ukraine has already been way too high citing the economic strain and increase security risks others like the MI6 Chief

Richard Moore reportedly said that failing to stand firm would basically jeopardize not just Ukraine of the entire postc Cold War order the stakes are clearly existential the US and its allies face a strategic Crossroads president-elect Donald Trump promised to end the Russia Ukraine war but the details of his plan remain a secret could his approach signal a shift in US foreign policy one that prioritizes peace over confrontation as the shadow War intensifies and the the third nuclear age takes shape one thing is clear complacency is absolutely not an option to stay up to speed with

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