In the corridors of the United Nations and across European capitals, a quiet alarm is being raised — not in whispers, but with unusual candor from intelligence chiefs who rarely speak openly. Russia, they warn, may be moving from a shadow war of sabotage and covert disruption toward something more direct: a test of NATO's collective will on European soil, possibly within months. This moment asks an old question in a new form — how does a civilization respond to aggression that is designed to be just ambiguous enough to paralyze it?
Europe braces for Russian 'shadow war' as intelligence warns of NATO test
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