, Columnist
China Is Joining Russia’s Shadow War on Europe
Putin and his drone army.
Photographer: Sergei Bobylyov/AFP/Getty Images
For decades, Europe exemplified post-Cold War peace. Today, it confronts enduring, escalating war. The coda to President Donald Trump’s peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in August has been an intensification of Russia’s war on Ukraine — combined with a dramatic upsurge in Russia’s hybrid war against Europe itself.
That campaign of intimidation, coercion and subversion is now enveloping Europe, at nearly every point on the compass. It previews a future of tension and insecurity for a continent that long viewed tranquility as the norm.