M.N.: Emboldened by the Crimean "anschluss" and the success of the "special war" in Eastern Ukraine, which are the results of Obama's unpreparedness and incomprehensible inaction, to put it mildly; the Russian spies and "little green men" of various persuasions and tasks, in cahoots with the local "fifth columns" of recent Russian emigres and their broad coalition of multicolored allies, from far left to far right, became openly, unprecedentedly, intolerably brazen and viciously covertly aggressive, standing just a step away from the actual war: "...Russia does not play by Western rules, and Putin and his Kremlin, being Chekists to their core, place great value on what I term Special War, meaning a shadowy amalgam of espionage, propaganda, and terrorism that Western states are poorly positioned to counter." - Putin Turns Up His Special War Against Europe by John R. Schindler
M.N.: Emboldened by the Crimean "anschluss" and the success of the "special war" in Eastern Ukraine, which are the results of Obama's unpreparedness and incomprehensible inaction, to put it mildly; the Russian spies and "little green men" of various persuasions and tasks, in cahoots with the local "fifth columns" of recent Russian emigres and their broad coalition of multicolored allies, from far left to far right, became openly, unprecedentedly, intolerably brazen and viciously covertly aggressive, standing just a step away from the actual war: "... Russia does not play by Western rules, and Putin and his Kremlin, being Chekists to their core, place great value on what I term Special War , meaning a shadowy amalgam of espionage, propaganda, and terrorism that Western states are poorly positioned to counter." Putin Turns Up His Special War Against Europe by John R. Schindler Friday March 20 th , 2015 at 2:01 PM