Geopolitics
The Moldovan Blueprint: How Kremlin Hybrid Warfare Evolved and Why the West Is Failing to Stop It
A Kremlin-backed network, funded by fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor and reportedly answering to senior official Sergei Kiriyenko, recruited and paid over 150,000 Moldovans to influence elections and conduct destabilizing activities, with this scalable model of hybrid warfare now being adapted for operations within major EU states like France and Germany. This brazen and flexible blueprint for foreign interference, using money and local proxies to undermine European sovereignty, exposes the West's fragmented and reactive defenses against a determined adversary whose ambitions extend far beyond its immediate borders.
