The Atlantic piece on Russia's hybrid war misses a domestic front. The AfD's pitch: vote us, live cheap and quiet, why should Ukraine matter? That's not separate from Putin's strategy, it's the payoff. Enough AfD power in security posts, and Germany weakens enough for him to test the Baltics.
3) Pooty-Poot wants to keep your eyes off the fact that he sits on a shaky throne. If America's leader was someone else, he wouldn't be carefully threatening NATO and Europe. Trump is his salvation; his Useful Idiot.
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