Europe Could Face Trouble From Russia on Several Flanks
Putin’s African initiatives reflect his overall strategy of propping up embattled autocrats in exchange for their loyalty.

Ukraine might be Europe’s most imminent crisis, yet it is hardly President Putin’s only gambit for the continent. Europe could yet find itself squeezed by Moscow from the east and at the mercy of its whims in the south. Not since the last gasps of Soviet adventurism have the prospects for destabilization been so great.
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