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Ryan Bridge: Putin's game of chicken
Putin’s playing a game of chicken with the Europeans and Europeans are the chickens.
NATO’s so far done nothing but talk about these fighter jets and drones.
Take your pick of experts and former military bosses chiming on the why over the weekend, and you’ll get 10 different answers.
Are these incursions a mistake?
No. Too many now.
So he’s doing this for one of two reasons. To keep more territory in Ukraine. Freak the Europeans a bit. They might buckle and give him more of what he wants.
OR. He’s picking off countries one-by-one to test the NATO response.
Lining up his next target.
Does NATO…
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