Mark Galeotti
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
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Doesn't mean that he won't do that.
But nonetheless, we have to accept that they all had very serious price tags.
Well, look, I mean, I think the idea that he'll intensify his covert campaign is almost certain.
And I think particularly we will see it directed towards the factories, the transport infrastructures, which are responsible for providing assistance to the Ukrainians.
I would not want to be working on the Polish railways.
But in some ways, look, there's a limit to just how effective that can be, at least especially without actually crossing the boundaries into being absolutely sort of overtly involved.
You know, the Russians are doing a lot of work using these so-called disposable agents, essentially local thugs, like the people who carried out the Leighton arson attack in London.
who are not sophisticated sabotage experts by any means.
They're just guys whom you can offer to pay a bit of money for them to throw a few Molotov cocktails at something or plant something on a railway line.
So you can do a certain amount of that.
The next stage up will be talking about assassinations and the like.
We could actually see, if the Russians really wanted to start getting sharp-toothed, is attacks on industrialists, particular influencers, maybe some politicians particularly heavily associated with this idea, just to give that sense of, if you speak out really strongly against Moscow,
Maybe there'll be an attack on you or, well, as Kyrgyzstan were discovered, you know, maybe we'll try and your car will catch fire or whatever else.
So, you know, it is possible that they would actually move up that way.
But again, that begins to come close to existing taboos.
And ironically, here, Putin's going to be a victim of, again, of his own paranoias.
The idea of some kind of military response.
We did have these reports from Poland digging into actually the original reports.
It seems to have been more just evidence that there had been contingency planning in Moscow for what would we do if we got the orders from the Kremlin to escalate.
Mark, just to be
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