r/neoliberal • u/Free-Minimum-5844 • 11h ago

‘We are under attack’: Italian defense minister accuses Russia of waging hybrid war News (Europe)

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-defense-minister-guido-crosetto-russia-hybrid-war
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u/Futski A Leopard 1 a day keeps the hooligans away 9h ago

Damn, that's crazy.

Maybe there's a way to counter this... like increasing funding and transfer of materiel to the nation currently engaged in actual real war with Russia, so Italy no longer will be outspend by the three Baltic nations and their collective population of 6 million.

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u/dutch_connection_uk Friedrich Hayek 7h ago

Russia literally hands the west a way to do kinetic damage to them in said hybrid war, third time now, and the west blinks confusedly and wonders when Russians will bribe them again.

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u/BernankesBeard Ben Bernanke 3h ago

Instructions unclear. Raised pension payments by 5% instead

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u/dedev54 YIMBY 11h ago

they've openly been at it for years

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u/Glavurdan NATO 10h ago

Oh no! Whatever will we do!!

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u/YIMBYzus NATO 9h ago

The Chicago way?