Russian Kremlin Roulette | Reaper MQ-9 is an excuse? | Office of strategical Operations | Ep 4

The Russians, knocking down the American military MQ-9 unmanned aircraft in the Black Sea, have demonstrated one more time that they are capable of taking tremendous political and military risks, at a level unknown or alternatively unpracticed among Western countries. What is this fondness for a kind of Russian roulette in the modern politics of the Kremlin -- retaliation for failures at the front, or possibly something typical of the reasoning of the Putin administration? That question became the canvode for the next episode of the Office of strategical Operations podcast.