NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircraft: Report

Re:NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircr... by mschuster91 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:04AM (#25147244)

They have literally been caught financing Brexit and every major alt-right, antidemocratic, Europe-skeptic party there is - Germany's AfD, France's FN, Italy's Salvini bunch.

Russia is a threat to democracy and an enemy of Europe, directly competing with China.

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Re:NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircr... by morsch on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:44AM (#25147480)

Well yeah, but the thread so far was referring to military threats.

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Re:NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircr... by mschuster91 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:30PM (#25152644)

Russia can't compete with any Western country in open warfare.

Cyber warfare and nation destabilizing by propaganda campaigns however? That is way cheaper, and the Russians have quite a history of such actions with the KGB. The side benefit is that, in contrast to a Russian airplane dumping Russian bombs on a city, the Russian government can easily deny that they are responsible for a group of hackers or an oligarch's "donation" to a far right party.

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Re:NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircr... by drran on Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:36AM (#25147770)

If Russian Federation can be beaten by west military, then it's stupid to threat western countries in any way. They can bluff West for a few years, but then what?

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Re:NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircr... by SilentBan on Thursday November 19, 2020 @07:39AM (#25148859)

The Russian brigade is doing great job downvoting you. This is another proof that you are right.

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