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Ambassador Gordon Sondland is arguing that NATO and the European Union should treat the Kremlin as responsible for acts of sabotage and hybrid aggression by default, then let Moscow prove otherwise.
Writing in Fox News Opinion, Sondland frames Western democracies' habit of demanding courtroom-grade proof before responding as a strategic liability that Russia has spent decades deliberately cultivating.
The attribution trap The argument turns on a single structural observation: Russia designs its operations to ensure that conclusive public evidence will rarely exist, or cannot be disclosed without burning intelligence sources.
Drones crossing into Eastern European airspace, severed Baltic Sea cables, crippled government networks, exploding weapons factories, disrupted rail systems, disinformation campaigns benefiting targeted political figures.
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