The hybrid war scenarios, the sabotage, the targeting of political persons and Russian fugitives, the misleading public are now reminiscent of the time when the Cold War was in its fortresses. You feel excited. The spy shares are on a rapid rise and the best stories of misleading and betrayal are the ones that come. Many of them will be based on true events, as we can safely predict, if we trust daily news.

New “legends” of espionage may not have emerged as the infamous Marcus Wolf, the former head of the Foreign Affairs Department of the State Security of the well -known Stasi, or Kim Filby, as the largest spy of the 20th century, after the 20th -century spy, after the US 1963 in Moscow, where he died with the title of KGB’s “Honorary”. But there are countless, obscure candidates for their successors.

What are the Germans afraid of

In a world full of modern controversy, which escape the traditional context of bipolarism, espionage is no longer a matter of the once two major camps. Of course, the Ukraine war and the open conflict of West and Moscow bring to the forefront the threats of the KGB tradition, although the Ukrainian saboteurs have shown in recent days that they are not lagging behind in abilities and inventiveness.

These days a former German intelligence employee, Gerhard Conrad, was talking to DW about the underground action of Russian spies, either by physical presence or on the internet and demanded a significant strengthening of his former employers.

On the one hand, there are, as he says, various businesses that “aim to cause insecurity in public opinion, shaking the confidence of citizens in state power.” Of course, the classic methods of espionage and gathering information on political, entrepreneurs, important infrastructure and, of course, Bundesver, as well as monitoring of helping missions to Ukraine, are not absent. “The ultimate goal is often to harass or completely prevent such activities.”

Conrad answers the question of whether we are already in a hybrid war with secret services. “This is not yet an open military conflict, but a disguised,” he concludes.

After all, a espionage background assumes that the multiple reports/ estimates of high-ranking military in Germany have also insisted on this possible Moscow-West War to become warmer within the next five years, with a possible attack on a member of Russia. Only such information from intelligence services can come, if they are justified and not just military analysts work.

The British already see war

On Friday, in a spectacular interview with the British Guardian, Fiona Hill, a London government adviser on defense issues, estimated that Russia has already declared war on the “big island”, and even at a time when the US of Donald Trump has been in a period. Hill, who had previously been Trump’s adviser, has been tasked with writing a report on the needs of the country’s “strategic defense”, in which much is dedicated to the Russian threat.

“Russia has been hardened as an opponent in ways that we probably didn’t fully predict,” Hill claims in an interview, believing that Putin saw the war in Ukraine as a starting point to make Moscow “dominant military power throughout Europe”.

In the context of this long -term effort, Russia has already “threatened the United Kingdom in various ways,” he recalled, saying “poisoning, murders, sabotage businesses, all kinds of cyberattacks and public opinion businesses. The sensors we see that place around critical pipelines, efforts to destroy underwater cables are other specimens. “

The lost US umbrella

“We say that Putin has declared war on the West,” is Hill’s categorical verdict in her interview. When this was said for the first time, other experts disagreed, but the events that followed had shown that “he obviously had done it and we didn’t care.” The Russian leader, in her opinion, sees the battle in Ukraine as “part of a war with representatives with the United States, so he persuaded China, North Korea and Iran to participate”. This means, of course, that spies and sabots can come from other “opposing” countries.

In particular, the role of China, especially in the field of electronic war, seems to grow up, as the latest research in Brussels on Huawei’s practices confirm. In a Chinese strategy theorist, Sun Ju, we “owe” the quote “all the war is based on misleading”.

This new situation obliges Great Britain to increased vigilance, especially now that it cannot be based on the “US military umbrella”, as was the case in the Cold War. However, it proposes to the Starmer government to manage the new situation with “No. 1 ally” without excessive reactions because “we do not want to have a rupture”.

Some, however, may have been transferred mentally to television series of recent years, where US and British secret services are working together, but they are possessed by a share of suspicion, keeping themselves in secrets that do not consider themselves to be shared.