Russia’s Threats to Europe Extend Beyond Ukraine

It’s up to Ukraine’s NATO allies to show there are no weak links. Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. Russia’s war against Ukraine, initiated in 2014 and then launched on a full-scale basis in 2022, is the gravest security crisis on the European continent since World War II. But it’s not the only Russian threat on the continent. Russia’s gray-zone, or hybrid, war against the rest of Europe beyond Ukraine poses additional, serious challenges to NATO and U.S. interests. Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau is the Bradford M. Freeman managing director for Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute and a former senior member of the U.S. Foreign Service that included a tour as acting deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. David J. Kramer, executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova from 2005-2008. More We Think You’d Like