On February 21, Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative senior advisor and Forward Defense nonresident senior fellow Thomas Warrick interviewed live with Cairo-based news channel al-Ghad al-Arabi, to discuss a same-day televised Russian national security meeting. Warrick criticized the Russian broadcast as political theater, and not an indication of Putin’s actual military intentions.
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