Alain Berset

Swiss politicians

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On the very short term, I think we are maybe seeing that there is a gap between what is needed and what we have,
We have huge sequence of crisis, since the financial crisis, rise of inequalities, debt crisis, difficulties for the states to deliver for the citizens, the war in Ukraine and what it meant for Europe in 2014 to have the invasion of Crimea,
It is evolving quite rapidly, and we need to adapt to this,
It is for the people, for the citizens, really complicated right now to understand what does this mean exactly and where is the world going,
And I think maybe we are not well-prepared for this,
It means to have a comprehensive approach where we have democratic institutions in a country able to control what's happening and not having an extremist group winning elections somewhere because of manipulations, or a lot of other reasons, and then taking control of super well-armed armies,

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Drones, sabotage and a shadow fleet: Decoding the ‘hybrid’ war that Europe blames on Russia

Hindustan Timeshindustantimes.com/ht/explaine…

And the hybrid threat landscape is not limited to the battlefield at a time when not only drones, but also online interference campaigns, have increasingly penetrated across Europe, exploiting a wave of political upheaval that risks upending the liberal consensus

Newsweeknewsweek.com/council/of…