“We must not sit back and assume that a possible Russian attack would not come until 2029 at the earliest. We are already in the line of fire today,” claimed Martin Jaeger, new head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency BND, at a hearing of Bundestag intelligence control commission on Monday, Oct. 13. Moscow knows “no rest and no respite…. At best, there is an icy peace in Europe, which could turn into a heated confrontation at any moment. We must prepare ourselves for further escalations,” he remarked.
Russia’s actions are “designed to undermine NATO, destabilize European democracies, divide and intimidate our societies,” Jaeger went on, adding that Russia was using espionage and sabotage, propaganda, election manipulation, and the use of drones in foreign airspace, among other things. Jaeger, who previously served as German ambassador in Ukraine, spoke of a “new quality of confrontation.”
