The incentives are that Europeans will vote in isolationist parties that are either friendly with Russia, or at best neutral. Those parties will then be anti-EU, anti-NATO. Key word here is isolationist.

Russia knows that if they want to keep annex countries, they'll have to take them piece by piece, with little resistance.

I can come up with an alternative explanation that's equally as plausible. Anthropic and OpenAI hacking everyone to sell their cybersecurity AI.

Your explanation and mine equally have zero credible evidence.

Exactly. And as an added bonus: it's a nice dry-run in case of an actual war. There's certainly value in disrupting your adversary's food supply.

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