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(www.nationalreview.com, July 22, 2014)
Putin’s Grand Ambition
By Tony Shaffer
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...And this is but the beginning: It is clear that
Putin’s ultimate goal is to recover influence over all former Warsaw Pact nations who have joined the West
(Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Albania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia).