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The continental playbook is to take your neighbours one at a time — destabilise the rising, ingest the failing, wait to pounce — and that is Putin's game.
Drawn from what Sarah Paine said
SubjectRussia
What Sarah Paine actually said
- Sarah Paine Historian of maritime and continental empires who taught strategy at the U.S
You set them up to fail, you destabilize the rising, you ingest the failing, and you set up buffer zones in between, and you await the opportune moment to pounce and absorb. This is Vladimir Putin's game.
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Watch from 0:24:22 plays here↗Sarah Paine - Why Putin and Xi can't escape geographyyoutube.com
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