Putin Win Is First Step in Horrifying New ‘Axis of Weasels’ With Trump, Orban and Le Pen
PARIS—What does NATO’s most sought after specialist on Vladimir Putin expect to happen after the despot wheedles his fifth six-year term as the president of Russia on Sunday?
“An ocean of tyranny and bloodshed,” Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda told The Daily Beast, before echoing his prognosis to some 1,300 military officers and policymakers assembled for the Paris Defense and Strategy Forum. The two-day gathering was faced with the unenviable task of finding a way to cripple Putin’s jackboot march on Western democracies without launching nuclear weapons.
Nausėda’s verdict: “Russia will not stop,” he says. “It can only be stopped.”