The Russians, knocking down an American military unmanned MQ-9 on the Black Sea, demonstrated one more time that they were able to take a immense political-military risk, at a level unknown or alternatively unpracticed among Western states. What is this love of a circumstantial Russian roulette in contemporary Kremlin politics – a retaliation for defeats on the front, or possibly something typical of Putin's administration's thinking? This question has become another episode of the podcast of the Bureau of strategical Operations.
