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Intelligence Reports of Russian Attack on Poland Likely Kremlin Misdirection Says Volker
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Has Trump put Europe at risk of Russian attack with threats to NATO alliance?
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"I think this is misdirection planted into the intelligence channels by Russia in order to get us to believe it and to react to it and to be afraid of it. I think this is an effort by Russia to get that kind of reflexive control as they call it of what we might do in our own defense and in our support for Ukraine."
Former Trump envoy Kurt Volker dismisses recent US intelligence warnings to Poland about possible Russian armed attack this year as deliberate disinformation. He argues Putin cannot afford to take on NATO while losing in Ukraine, and suggests Russia planted these reports to manipulate Western defense posture and Ukraine support. Volker characterizes this as Russian 'reflexive control' tactics.
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