Police investigators work on the tarmac with a robot that is capable, among other things, of defusing explosives, near a Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany on Aug. 5, 2026.Jens Schlueter/Getty Images

Europe’s businesses are paying for Russia’s hybrid war – POLITICO

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Elisabeth Braw is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, author of the award-winning “Goodbye Globalization” and a regular columnist for POLITICO. Her new book, “The Undersea War,” is out Oct. 8.

Plots against defense executives, a series of arson attacks against private companies and warehouses, and explosive drones at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport.

Had any of these worked as intended, they would have caused immense damage, not to mention claimed lives.