Libby Brooks in the Guardian writes, a multiplicity of hoax bomb threats divert passenger flights across Europe. A malign cyber-attack targets fridges in Belgium, Sweden, UK and cold storage of France’s blood service. The actors behind this, be they hostile states, criminal gangs or teenagers yet to be identified operate in a context of deepening global conflicts, building national threat and an accompanying, pervasive sense of vulnerability.
This is the grey zone between peace and war.