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Todd Bensman is a Middle East Forum Writing Fellow, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and author of Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History, the 2023 follow-up to his
That came out in the evening hours yesterday. russian-appointed officials saying that a russian-backed judge in the donetsk region, this is a russian-occupied region, is now in critical condition after there was an assassination attempt on him. this judge is significant. he was the judge who sentenced three foreigners in june to death, including two british fighters who had been here fighting with ukrainian forces. now, russian-backed officials, moscow blaming ukraine for this. ukraine not responding. but this isn't the first time we've seen this, where russian-backed officials have been attac...
Colleagues at cia to do something. are they up for yet another covert war? >> there are a lot of ways we can go after the russians, and very frankly, you know, you're not dealing with a power that has both a strong economy and a strong political situation. russia's in trouble right now, and putin understands that. i mean, if -- you know, i guess, it was john mccain that said russia is largely a gas station combined with a state, and the fact is if anything impacts on his ability to provide oil and be able to impact on that delivery of oil, it will seriously injure russia. and putin knows that....
Up until now you probably have never heard of before. just a few points moscow first to point wagner in ukraine when the kremlin needed to fight casualties from the public to mitigate the international repercussions of a neighbor sovereignty as a tactic with deep roots in russian history during the cold war. by using so-called volunteers moscow reduce the active-duty personnel and conceal their presence initially. the recruitment of these groups happen quickly in 2014 and the kremlin turned to private and state actors to finance the efforts. russia's covert war sparked alarm over instruments o...