Austrian military analyst Gustav Gressel highlights the West's failure to deter Russia's hybrid warfare tactics, including cyberattacks, propaganda, sabotage, and political warfare. He argues for a more proactive Western strategy involving increased offensive intelligence gathering within Russia, including cyber and human intelligence, to better expose and counter Moscow's subversive activities. Gressel notes that Russia's hybrid attacks are low-cost and repetitive due to insufficient punitive response from the West. He advocates for coordinated collective Western countermeasures, including expulsion of Russian intelligence agents, restriction of diplomatic facilities used for espionage, and covert asymmetric operations targeting Russian interests abroad. The analyst warns that continued Western hesitance enables Russian interference inside Europe and calls for sustained robust support to Ukraine to prevent broader European security collapse.

Austrian military analyst Gustav Gressel highlights the West's failure to deter Russia's hybrid warfare tactics, including cyberattacks, propaganda, sabotage, and political warfare. He argues for a more proactive Western strategy involving increased offensive intelligence gathering within Russia, including cyber and human intelligence, to better expose and counter Moscow's subversive activities. Gressel notes that Russia's hybrid attacks are low-cost and repetitive due to insufficient punitive response from the West. He advocates for coordinated collective Western countermeasures, including expulsion of Russian intelligence agents, restriction of diplomatic facilities used for espionage, and covert asymmetric operations targeting Russian interests abroad. The analyst warns that continued Western hesitance enables Russian interference inside Europe and calls for sustained robust support to Ukraine to prevent broader European security collapse.