He wants to establish Russia as the main Middle East power broker. and he wants to divert attention from his continued occupation of Ukraine. In the long term. he sees an opportunity to divide EU and divide NATO at lower risk than it would take to conduct military operations such as Estonia or Latvia. If Europeans are going to be divided because of a refugee crisis of a few hundred thousand. imagine what could happen when Vladimir Putin turns up the heat in Syria and drives hundreds of thousands or more of those refugees into Europe. How has this come to pass? Why would he think he could get away with all of this?
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