Moscow Is Using Zapad 2021 Military Exercise to Put Pressure on Belarus - RAND Corporation
Forty years ago, Russia used large-scale military exercises to intimidate Poland's communist leaders - they had to crack down on protesters, many of whom associated with the independent trade union Solidarity. A similar Russian exercise now could be aimed in part at pressuring Belarus. William Courtney, a senior researcher at the American think tank RAND Corporation, wrote about this in his blog.
Moscow Is Using Zapad 2021 Military Exercise to Put Pressure on Belarus - RAND Corporation
Forty years ago, Russia used large-scale military exercises to intimidate Poland's communist leaders - they had to crack down on protesters, many of whom associated with the independent trade union Solidarity. A similar Russian exercise now could be aimed in part at pressuring Belarus. William Courtney, a senior researcher at the American think tank RAND Corporation, wrote about this in his blog.
