'The way to retrieve one major strategic blunder is to make another one somewhere else,' Mr Clarke said. 'It kicks all the cards up in the air and you hope that as they land you'll deal yourself a better hand.' mattfrei | MikeClarke2020s
Putin has an "incentive" to "internationalise" the war in Ukraine and draw the rest of Europe into it, former Director General of the Royal United Services Institute Michael Clarke has told LBC.Russian troops have been accused of 'murdering civilians in cold blood' as Ukrainian troops took back the town of Bucha near Kyiv.
"Because it actually kicks all the cards up in the air and you hope that as the cards land you'll deal yourself a better hand and be able to manipulate it better.
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