Decapitation – v2 #assassination #EU #NATO #Russia #WWIII

We see the attacks committed,
multiple threats on the radar screen,
between the warring nations,
assassination attempts on the leaders,
of targeted military commanders,
those who have committed war crimes,
on former politicians, leaders,
seeking their destruction…

But we must be honest about wider threats,
an escalation in the conflict, in the terror,
decapitation, premeditated murder,
outside the boundaries of the combatants,
threats to the European continent,
on the entire rules-based order,
Hybrid war is becoming kinetic
flammable liquids at their flash point…

Will the leaders understand the existential risk
in limited responses to terror, to these attacks,
when the whole world is on a hair-trigger,
not seeing the dominoes lined up, falling,
acts of war brushed aside as annoyance,
a Sword of Damocles hanging above them…
One false step can lead to Armageddon,
a plane crashing to the earth…

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Edited September 2, 2025

Decapitation – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/decapitation-v2.html

September 1, 2025, Russian GPS jamming of a plane carrying the European Union President 

Ursula von der Leyen

And on September 1, 2025, Germany’s military inspector general, Carsten Breue

and the assassination of former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy

Edited January 3, 2025
Hybrid War is War – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/01/hybrid-war-is-war-v2.html
Edited September 1, 2025
Since the Fall of the Iron Curtain – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/since-fall-of-iron-curtain-v2.html
September 1, 2025
our complacency is our complicity
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/09/our-complacency-is-our-complicity.html
Edited August 30, 2025
the cost of our silence is measured in children’s lives – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-cost-of-our-silence-is-measured-in_30.html
Edited August 28, 2025
Дети – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/08/v4.html
Edited August 21, 2025
Putin walked on a carpet of blood – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/08/putin-walked-on-carpet-of-blood-v2.html
Edited July 12, 2025
Unrelenting Terror – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/unrelenting-terror-v2.html
Edited April 14, 2025
Screaming into the Void – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/screaming-into-void-v3.html
Revised April 11, 2025
Kryvyi Rih – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/04/kryvyi-rih-v2-kryvyi-rih-not-just.html
Edited December 12, 2024
The blood of the dead in Bucha – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-blood-of-dead-in-bucha-v6.html
typed October 15, 2024
The stain of innocent blood – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-stain-of-innocent-blood-v5.html

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