It’s been a long-standing Kremlin strategy to drive a permanent wedge between the United States and Europe, dividing and weakening its traditional adversaries in the West.
For years, Russia has promoted sabotage and disinformation to undermine Western institutions, seen as stubborn obstacles to Moscow’s territorial ambitions and dreams of regaining Soviet-style status and power.
Breaking up NATO, the powerful Western military alliance, has been a particularly potent fantasy, especially since the Ukraine war. Concerns about possible NATO expansion were used by the Kremlin to justify its brutal, full-scale invasion nearly four years ago.
Imagine the glee, then, in the corridors of…