Rosenberg: Putin's veiled threat to UK part of Russia's campaign against West

But look what's happening elsewhere in Europe. Germany now says Russia was responsible for last month's drone attack at Leipzig airport. Putin accused Germany of "planting the evidence". But German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt described "the well-established pattern of Russian hybrid operations in Europe".Could such "operations" now be stepped up in the UK?Yet it wasn't just Britain that received veiled threats at Putin's press conference.So did the West in general. Putin referred to Western countries as sharks."If anyone tries to drag us down the food chain, to gobble us up or devour us, they might get punched in the teeth," he said. "Russia is ready to do that, despite the rapidly growing appetites and teeth of these sharks."Increasingly Russia's president is mixing the geopolitical with the zoological. He recently spoke about killer whales "tearing polar bears apart" to justify Russia's war on Ukraine.The press conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, was a fascinating window on Putin's state of mind.For forty-five minutes he took questions from Russian journalists and came across as combative, confident of victory and energised. These days Putin appears most animated when tal...