The Guns of September
They've been called a pretext for mischief agains…
The Power Vertical Podcast by Brian Whitmore · The Charles T. McDowell Center for Global Studies and Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center
September 3, 20211h 0m
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Show Notes
They've been called a pretext for mischief against the Baltics and Poland and a means for Russia to increase its military footprint in Belarus.
They've been called Kremlin saber-rattling, a message to the West, and a very expensive and noisy psyop. And they've been called routine military exercises that are nothing more than business as usual.
But whatever you call them, the joint Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2021 military exercises that will begin next week seem to have everybody's attention.
So what should we expect from Zapad-2021? On this week's Power Vertical Podcast host Brian Whitmore speaks with military analyst Michael Kofman, director of the Russian Studies Program at the CNA corporation to find out.
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