Tomasz K. Kowalik, Dominik P. Jankowski
Security, Eurasia
Russia has a long history of using military exercises as a platform for waging actual wars.
It all started with a military exercise in 2008. “Today, Georgia; tomorrow, Ukraine; the day after, the Baltic States; and later perhaps time will come for my country, for Poland!” Those words were said at Tbilisi Square on August 5, 2008, by the late Polish president Lech Kaczyński in the presence of five European heads of state who came in a gesture of solidarity with recently invaded Georgia. Almost ten years later, this statement appears like a self-fulfilling …read more
Source: The National Interest
