An ‘Unhinged’ Putin Threatens Dangerous Escalation in Ukraine
. “Those are areas where they can inflict economic costs without suffering massively themselves,” Alperovich says.
Alperovich also says that he expects to see cyber actions by Russia aimed at breaking Europe and NATO’s unity, but that such effects might well prove limited. “It’s really hard to have lasting damage with cyber,” he says. “They might be able to turn things off for a few hours or days, but we have plenty of capacity to get things back online. But it can cause an escalation that requires us to respond.
He predicts that the Russian military will grow more indiscriminate and deadly as the conflict continues, perhaps bringing its artillery or even its fieryto bear against civilian and urban targets, attacks that would likely be considered international war crimes.
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