Nuclear horror fears: 'Unhinged' Putin heading for 'direct' war with NATO – ex-CIA agent
4Robert Baer fears things are "likely to get a lot worse" with the country’s "unhinged" President Vladimir Putin pursuing a war of "Russian fascism". Former CIA case officer Mr Baer, has highlighted his concerns about Putin in his new book, The Fourth Man, in which he details the hunt for a KGB agent who rose up through the ranks of the US intelligence agency in the 1990s.
Washington’s subsequent underestimation of Moscow resulted in it being caught flat-footed by Putin’s annexation of Crimea, and ultimately his full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, his book suggests.
Nuclear horror fears: 'Unhinged' Putin heading for 'direct' war with NATO – ex-CIA agent
Mr Baer, 69, whose other books See No Evil and Sleeping with the Devil, were the basis for the Oscar-winning 2005 film Syriana, told Express.co.uk: “What we have today is worse than anything during the Cold War.
“There’s no question the West had to support Ukraine but at the same time we’re inching toward a direct conflict between NATO and Russia.
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