If one day we wake up to the threat of a third world war and a Donald Trump who says he will make the Persian civilization disappear from the face of the Earth, and other days it is various technologists who announce the end of humanity at the hands of artificial intelligence (AI), it is normal that, faced with so many apocalyptic statements, the population ends up downplaying them and focuses more on worrying about their particular problems. That is why this week’s warning from the Kremlin that Poland will cease to exist “in two or three days” if it dares to attack Russia has gone unnoticed amid so much warlike and testosterone-fueled noise to which public opinion has become accustomed.
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The threat from Moscow came after a Russian drone attack on a train near the border between Ukraine and Poland this past Sunday. It is a railway line used by European politicians in their trips to Kyiv and precisely on that same route a convoy passed minutes earlier in which the former prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Sweden, Boris Johnson and Carl Bildt, were traveling, and in a second locomotive was the former CIA director David Petraeus, who was evacuated minutes before the explosion. Imagine what would have happened if that drone had hit the trains carrying these political leaders.
Russia is increasing its drone attacks in parallel with its intense hybrid war on European territory, consisting of cyberattacks, airspace violations, or incursions of ships into the territorial waters of other countries. This very Monday a Russian warship fired two flares at a Danish helicopter in Baltic waters.
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This progressive increase in Russian actions prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to convene the political forces of his country yesterday to announce a plan to protect its basic infrastructures. Thus, the Russian threat is increasingly present. Vladimir Putin is tightening the rope more and more in his relations with the EU and the risk is that it will break. The risk of conflagration between Europe and Russia should not be taken lightly or underestimated.
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