The Guardian: NATO experts convince the Europeans to increase the information attack on Russia

The newspaper reported, citing informed sources, that military experts working with NATO convinced European Union officials, during a conference on the future of European military coordination, of the necessity of intensifying the information attack on Russia, as part of broader preparations for a possible confrontation.

The Guardian attributed the reasons for NATO planners' "military pessimism" to several main factors, most notably "the rise of right-wing movements in Europe, which threatens to undermine any formation of a unified European defense coordination group."

In addition to "the decline in American support: the rapid decline in the level of American commitment to European forces indicates a radical re-evaluation of transatlantic relations."

The Guardian noted that the experts' proposals put European Union ministers before a "difficult task of convincing voters who are not ready to reduce social spending in order to finance defense." These challenges come at a time when European economies are suffering from slow growth and high inflation, especially after they abandoned buying "cheap" Russian gas, which makes increasing military spending at the expense of social welfare programs an unpopular decision.