GENERAL SIR ROLY WALKER: Britain and Nato are in Putin's crosshairs. We are on a collision course with a Russia that's on a war footing

In the months leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I was working at the Ministry of Defence. We war-gamed Putin's possible strategies in order to advise our politicians.


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