The safest way to attack someone’s credibility is to nibble at it. This is what Russia is doing to NATO with its abduction of an Estonian security official on 5 September.
The kidnapping exemplifies the way the Kremlin works. Gangsterdom, intelligence, propaganda, a sense of history and diplomacy all overlap. The timing is excellent and so is the targeting: hitting the West in its weakest spot, in the zone between what frontline states find intolerable and what their allies are ready to notice.
The result is the slow collapse of NATO. The alliance does not know how to deal with small, confusing …read more
Source: European Voice
