The Economist (October 4)
“Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity.” Whether it’s “drones over Poland” or airspace incursions, “mysterious explosions and assassinations” or cyber-attacks, “Vladimir Putin is waging a grey-zone campaign against NATO: a cheap, deniable and calibrated effort to unsettle Europe that is carefully short of outright conflict…. NATO must resist Russia’s efforts to corrode it from within.”
Tags: Airspace, Assassinations, Calibrated, Campaign, Conflict, Cyber attacks, Deniable, Drones, Europe, Explosions, Grey-zone, Incursions, Nato, Poland, Putin, Testing, Unity, Unsettle
Le Monde (January 8)
“The aim of the assassinations on Wednesday 7 January at the offices of Charlie Hebdo was to kill journalists and cartoonists for their opinions. They have plunged everyone who defends freedom of expression into mourning, and horrified the whole of France.” We will defend this freedom and ensure the “free, caring, joyful society that the journalists and cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo were fighting for.”
Tags: Assassinations, Cartoonists, Charlie Hebdo, France, Freedom of expression, Journalists, Opinions
