RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: From the DISPATCH on the Russian assassination plot in the US: “Sean Wiswesser, a former senior operations officer with the CIA and author of Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War, told the Dispatch that the disrupted assassination plot is a failure of deterrence: “We project weakness when we don’t respond to aggression like the Leipzig drone incident—armed drones poised to attack a key NATO logistics hub. Or for the United States, the GRU parcel bomb plot,” he said. (Wiswesser) Referring to several incidents in which Russia sent explosive devices through European DHL shipping hubs with the possibility that they cou

From the DISPATCH on the Russian assassination plot in the US:  “Sean Wiswesser, a former senior operations officer with the CIA and author of Tradecraft, Tactics, and Dirty Tricks: Russian Intelligence and Putin’s Secret War, told the Dispatch that the disrupted assassination plot is a failure of deterrence:

   “We project weakness when we don’t respond to aggression like the Leipzig drone incident—armed drones poised to attack a key NATO logistics hub. Or for the United States, the GRU parcel bomb plot,” he said.
 
(Wiswesser) Referring to several incidents in which Russia sent explosive devices through European DHL shipping hubs with the possibility that they could be loaded onto planes headed to the United States [reported on by the NYT, among others].

⚠️”This emboldens the Russians to keep trying more and more escalatory actions, because they feel they have not met any threshold, not yet.” 

🙏🏻Kudos to  @markbsawyer and the Dispatch for this good reporting on an important lack of deterrence!

  thedispatch.com/article/russ…

— @Wiswesser Sep 23, 2026