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Putin's next strike could be anywhere in the world, warns Polish official
[The Guardian] Adviser to Poland's president says Russia's Syria intervention demonstrated to US that its diplomatic 'pivot to Asia' was a mistake.Vladimir Putin's new geopolitical ambitions have led the US to realise it made a strategic mistake turning away from Europe and making a pivot to Asia, the foreign affairs adviser to the Polish president has said. Krzysztof Szczerski urged the west to recognise that the Russian president was no longer simply seeking to restore his country's dominance in former Soviet states such as Ukraine, but to adopt a more dominant military posture across the globe. He told the Guardian: "It is now a strategy of geopolitical confrontation, so the next strikes of Putin are not guaranteed to be in the post-Soviet sphere. It could be anywhere in the world. It is wrong to think that Putin has narrow territorial limits. Syria has shown that is not the case." Szczerski said Putin's Syrian intervention last year showed Russia had the capacity to move large amounts of equipment at speed across a great distance without their preparations being noticed. "His capacity to set these new challenging fronts around the world should be an alarm call," he said. Posted by: Besoeker 2016-02-19 |
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