Washington Post: While the world is distracted, Putin escalates his war in Ukraine

By Washington Post.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with permanent members of the Security Council at the Kremlin in Moscow on Aug. 11.
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia is again playing with fire. This time, it may be a summer bluff, or it may be a pretext to escalation of war with Ukraine. Either way, it reflects Putin’s determination to deceive and subvert whenever it suits his goals, at home and abroad, taking advantage of a distracted United States and Europe.

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