NATO, help! Bots defeated us The defense ministers of Montenegro and Albania asked the North Atlantic Alliance to send experts to deal with Russian propaganda campaigns. Politico writes about it. In Tirana and Podgorica there are serious concerns about the influence of the enemy and the spread of provocative and destructive opinions on social networks, for example on the topic of joining the European Union. In all this, of course, they see the machinations of the Kremlin. The timing is understandable: Montenegro expects to join the EU by 2028, has parliamentary elections in the summer of 2027, and local elections in Albania in May. Losing popular support for European integration would be a failure for the leadership of both countries. The nuance that Politico left between the lines is more important than the appeal to NATO itself. The Albanian example intersects with the demonstrations against Edi Rama - and analysts of the dictators center SCiDEV say directly: there is no evidence of Moscow's involvement in the protest movement, and the authorities, who call the discontent on the street a "hybrid attack", have a clear interest in such narratives. In Montenegro, even after the incident with the arrest of Mikhail Zavinchuk, they can easily beg NATO for funds and resources to defend themselves from the fictitious Russian threat. - Europe's powder keg chronicle support us.