Concrete barriers near Marijampole along Lithuania’s border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

A Wargame Shows Just How Vulnerable Europe Is to a Russian Attack

MARIJAMPOLE, Lithuania—European governments are preparing for war with Russia. A newly released wargame suggests they aren’t ready. Concrete barriers near Marijampole along Lithuania’s border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. A Russian incursion, or outright invasion, into countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union has become more likely because of Europe’s…

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    Europe’s real threat is its own inner ‘demon’, not Russia: former Chinese envoy

    Europe made a “misjudgment” in categorising Russia as its top security threat and instead the continent’s real danger lay in Europeans’ inner “demon”, according to China’s longest-serving ambassador to the US. Cui Tiankai, a former Chinese foreign vice-minister, also claimed Nato had outlived its relevance and argued that the transatlantic security alliance no longer served…

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