Garry Kasparov: As a KGB officer, Vladimir Putin is expert in this method, which is more subterfuge than brute force.
The problem is that Russia long ago moved beyond this domain to begin carrying out open attacks on the West. Now, when European leaders say “hybrid war,” they aren’t talking about a specific mode of fighting. They are deploying “hybrid war” as a euphemism, a polite alternative to admitting that Russia is at war with them.
Europe fears that admitting that we are in a war with Russia will mean escalation—another slippery term…