Nikolai Holmov: NATO ambitions

As mass Russian “diplomatic” (spooks with diplomatic cover) expulsions occur in a surprisingly coordinated manner across the US and EU nation states (plus a few other nations too), the headlines will rightly focus thereon – despite the fact that no nation has expelled anywhere near enough to seriously hinder Kremlin intelligence gathering in any nation for long, or cause a lack of continuity/agent legacy management due to the number of “diplomats” left in post, and now also faced with having to identify all the replacements and carry out the usual CI work for each, the blog will look at an issue that won’t grab the headlines.