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#Ukraine: Probing and provoking Poland. . Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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🗓️ 3 August 2023

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#Ukraine: Probing and provoking Poland. . Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/poland-rushes-troops-to-border-belarus-denies-helicopter-violation/ar-AA1eEM36#image=1

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Poland rushes troops to border. Belarus denies helicopter violation.

0:33.1

It's a picture of Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus.

0:36.0

The short version of this is two helicopters approach the line or perhaps

0:39.6

went over airspace in the Poland. They're right up against each other, cheap to jowl.

0:44.4

And the poles have responded with deployment. Jeff, the

0:49.7

rump of the Wagner group is said to be stationed in Belarus, not far from the Polish border.

0:57.5

Said to be. We have no confirmation. The nuclear weapons from Russia are said to be

1:03.0

based in Belarus. We have no confirmation. However, the Polish army is not going to wait,

1:09.1

and these are tests of its response time, of its provocations.

1:13.3

Are you concerned in any fashion that Belarus is a reckless actor, but we'll do what Moscow says,

1:19.1

including probe the line? Well, I don't think they're necessarily reckless,

1:23.6

but they certainly will do whatever Moscow tells them. Lukashenko is certainly a puppet.

1:27.9

And Mr. Putin might well be arguing with Lukashenko if I need you to do this,

1:32.7

to if you will, stretch NATO. Present NATO with the concern that escalation might occur,

1:39.0

because escalation occurs in two ways. One expansion to higher and higher levels of weaponry,

1:44.6

Medvedev's threat to use nuclear weapons. Second way to escalate, threatened by expanding

1:49.6

the geographic territory of the country, obviously moving it into Poland and Belarus does that.

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