A Russian academic, often a disseminator of Vladimir Putin’s designs for the future, offered up a message of nuclear provocation and intimidation concerning the West for a small group of European security-affairs specialists gathered at a Paris think tank last week.
“We now have the nuclear capacity to confront NATO in Europe,” the Russian emissary said, according to an event participant. Here was a Russian insider’s description of Moscow’s intention to be a meaner, harsher problem beyond the dimensions of the confrontation in Ukraine.
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