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- “Putin’s foreign legion Russia is shifting its little green men to Syria.” – Paul Gregory for POLITICO
Paul Gregory, Member of KSE International Academic Board, Professor, University of Houston, USA describes situation in Syria.
“For Putin, the foreign legion, particularly bolstered by Cuban professionals, means that he can use proxy fighters to fight ground wars in place of young Russians, who have no desire to die in a faraway land that has no real meaning for them. An added advantage is that he transfers a highly armed team of thugs away from the porous Russian border. There’s no telling what kind of mischief they could cause on Russian soil. Let’s see how this works out for him.”
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