The Sun, February 26, Iain Duncan Smith MP
Vladimir Putin is giving the world a brutal lesson in how history repeats itself – and demonstrating how wrong and weak the West has been these last decades.
It’s not as though he didn’t send us all strong signals that he intended to return Russia to the control once exercised by the Soviet Union.
After he picked off Georgia, Crimea and the Donbas region, worse than doing nothing, France and Germany in 2014 appeased him.
Gas, oil and corrupt money invested in Europe spoke louder than freedom.
Putin believes that the feeble West won’t be able to stop him, and our catastrophic and panicky retreat from Afghanistan will have reinforced that belief.
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