re: #98 Teukka
Breaking: Mi6 flipped an Fsb spy embedded in the Ru embassy in Rome, his real task was to harvest classified intel about Nato from former DM Pinotti’s staff,he expressed a desire to desert cause Putin is “determined to march towards conflict with the West”
All through the 90’s, Russia was in such a state of social, political and economic chaos that it was not in a position to take up any conflict with the West over divergent interests.
Now Putin is flipping that situation and doing a successful job of it.