#escalation
3 posts tagged escalation.
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Russia's Kyiv ultimatum and the logic of escalation
Moscow's demand that foreigners leave Kyiv before 'systematic strikes' is less a military announcement than a psychological warfare campaign—but the West keeps rewarding it.
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Russia's Oreshnik and the grammar of escalation
The third Oreshnik hypersonic strike on Kyiv, paired with GPS jamming of a British defence secretary's aircraft, marks a deliberate shift in Russia's escalatory vocabulary that the West has not yet found an answer to.
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Russia's near-miss and the grammar of escalation
A Russian jet flying within metres of a British spy plane is not an accident — it is a message, and the West's reluctance to send one back is becoming a habit.