It isn't that other countries "didn't know" -- some just didn't care -- but the worst have been the ones to cover it up lest it harm the possibility of making money, i.e., selling out your own citizens, possibly their lives, all so that Russia wouldn't be angry.

cc @natvogel
RT @ilvestoomas: “Our interpretation is that gradually more European security services have concluded that the ‘Estonian approach’ is the way to go,” https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-spies-europe-exposes-out-of-the-shadows-sweden/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/IlvesToomas/status/1605859182439272448