before anyone jumps on the pedantry bandwagon, its worth noting that even though open war hasn’t been called: the attacks on infrastructure especially cyber warfare is extremely active and, crucially, direct.
It is totally fair to say that in a digital context, Russia is absolutely at war with Europe.
As far as I can tell, they don’t even try to hide it.
reactordev•1h ago
Not to mention the information war they have been waging globally since 2016
tosapple•1h ago
What I am starting to appreciate about these digital infrastructure attacks is that they may be reversible and or temporary. It can be a nice feature.
throw310822•17m ago
Europe has sanctioned Russia, frozen hundreds of billions of its assets (threatening to seize them), cut diplomatic relationships and even direct travel. It's arming Russia's adversary and providing it with logistic and intelligence support. It keeps repeating that its goal is to see Russia defeated in war. Then it's a bit rich to complain that "Russia is at war with Europe". Seems to me that it's Europe that has decided to go to war against Russia in all except with boots on the ground.
rdtsc•48m ago
Does Europe overall feel and act like that’s the case though?
It seems as if the European war has been pushed to the background recently, and most people kind of forgot about it. If you walk down the streets of Paris or Berlin does it look like it’s wartime, do people talk about it much, do they share the latest front news and so on?
general1465•1h ago
Poland is a major logistical hub for everything going towards Ukraine. Thus targeting basic infrastructure like energy grid or railroad have to be expected.
On the bright side, using these weapon grade malware is burning exploits and also showing current state and techniques of Russian cyberwarfare which defender can learn a lot from.
IncreasePosts•1h ago
The most obvious answer is Russia(or one of their allies like China or Iran) did it because Poland is supporting Ukraine in the war (directly, and also indirectly by letting stuff from other countries be staged and move through Poland).
tokai•47s ago
Russia is currently focused at striking Ukrainian energy assets. Ukraine get energy imports from EU through Hungary and Poland. Hampering energy supply from Poland would but a huge strain on the already struggling Ukrainian network.
altern8•1h ago
If you're looking for what the damage was, it failed.
Potential damage: "Most notable was one [attack] in Ukraine in December 2015. It left roughly 230,000 people without electricity for about six hours during one of the coldest months of the year."
johanneskanybal•16m ago
With all the other crazy world-destroying us bullshit, is this also you? 50% you, 50% russia. It's an new gameshow, is it Russian or us?
HPsquared•1h ago
breve•1h ago
dijit•1h ago
It is totally fair to say that in a digital context, Russia is absolutely at war with Europe.
As far as I can tell, they don’t even try to hide it.
reactordev•1h ago
tosapple•1h ago
throw310822•17m ago
rdtsc•48m ago
It seems as if the European war has been pushed to the background recently, and most people kind of forgot about it. If you walk down the streets of Paris or Berlin does it look like it’s wartime, do people talk about it much, do they share the latest front news and so on?
general1465•1h ago
On the bright side, using these weapon grade malware is burning exploits and also showing current state and techniques of Russian cyberwarfare which defender can learn a lot from.
IncreasePosts•1h ago
tokai•47s ago