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Podcast: The Truth of the Matter
Episode: Russia's Shadow War Against the West
Description: Russia poses several types of threats to Western powers. In the conventional sphere, the invasion of Ukraine is a direct threat to European countries. But below the threshold of conventional war, Russia's military intelligence directorate is also carrying out "active measures," an irregular warfare campaign of sabotage and subversion against Western countries that includes the use of explosive and incendiary devices, cyberattacks, and the use of blunt or edged instruments to damage critical infrastructure like undersea cables.The CSIS Defense and Security Department compiled a database of these attacks to analyze Russia's ongoing "shadow...