When a new year or decade begins, pundits are often asked to make predictions. One thing we can predict with some certainty is that in 2020 Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue launching global probes against the U.S. and its allies the world over. We can even go farther and state with some authority that Putin will make a forceful (though not necessarily military) intervention to incorporate Belarus into the Russian Federation and thereby create a new so-called Union state with him as president.
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Stephen Blank: Putin’s next aggression
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at the Elysee Palace to attend a summit on Ukraine, on December 9, 2019, in Paris. - Russian president will for the first time hold formal talks with his Ukrainian counterpart over the conflict in Ukraine's east, at a much-anticipated summit in Paris.
