Putin's poodle! Germany will not support NATO in any future wars with Russia. A leading Western analyst has suggested that Germany would never take military action against Russia, even if Vladimir Putin decided to invade European Nato allies. He argued that Berlin's growing dependency on Russian gas and coronavirus vaccines makes it less likely that Germany would be willing to confront Putin. Wolfgang Münchau, head of the think tank Eurointelligence, believes that the next potential flashpoint between Moscow and the West could be a 65km long strip of flat land along the Polish-Lithuanian border, known as the Suwalki Gap. Given that the Russian President and his Belarus counterpart Aleksandr Lukashenko are in talks about a political union, Mr Münchau suggested that Mr Putin might be tempted in the near future to initiate a land grab to both physically reconnect the Kaliningrad enclave with Belarus and cut the Baltic States off from the rest of Europe. Writing for eurointellig
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