“The Finns are quite right the Russians have been weaponizing migration for some time allied with aggressive disinformation - the idea being simply to produce ‘wedges’ within societies they judge to be hostile,” said Klaus Dodds, a geopolitics professor at Royal Holloway, University of London.
Why Finland is blaming Russia for a sudden influx of migrants on its eastern border
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Russia bombed and harassed Syria's population in 2015 “in a deliberate attempt to create a humanitarian crisis," he said.
A 'barbed wire curtain' rises in Europe amid war in Ukraine
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