Shahter - from my point of view, having seen the Kremlin at work for the past 20 years, it's clear that Putin runs his government like a maffia and has declared the west / eu / nato obstacles or at worst enemies of his own interest. He actively undermines international organisations and trade & hobbies away at proxy wars and border disputes. Meanwhile his oligarch friends are buying up media in eastern European countries and in recent years we're seeing more assassinations and barely hidden attempts to manipulate the public in other countries. We also still have close to 250 Europeans who were murdered because he decided to deploy BUK missile launchers to eastern Ukraine. It's the insidious lying that makes it all the more enraging - like the touted intervention in Syria to disperse ISIS. Daily updates on the war showed that over 90%+ of Russian air raids were on FSA forces and almost none on ISIS. Though all too often and keenly the image was projected in the media that Putin was there to 'save' the region from radicalism, yet in reality he left the Iraqis and the western coalition to deal with the ISIS problem while he did nothing but murder his way through civil war to support a dictator that used military force & chemical attacks on his own people. But hey, he presided over the destruction of Grozny in the early 2000s as well so what else can be expected.
As far as I'm concerned, perhaps we should start approaching this problem more in a 'tit-for-tat' manner. A 'strong' man like Putin can only understand strength. If it were up to me, the next time hybrid warfare tactics are deployed and/or European nationals are murdered in the name of Putin's Russia, it's time to deploy some hybrid warfare tactics on Russia and murder some Kremlin decisionmakers.
As far as I'm concerned, perhaps we should start approaching this problem more in a 'tit-for-tat' manner. A 'strong' man like Putin can only understand strength. If it were up to me, the next time hybrid warfare tactics are deployed and/or European nationals are murdered in the name of Putin's Russia, it's time to deploy some hybrid warfare tactics on Russia and murder some Kremlin decisionmakers.