A CIA boss has revealed the next country that he expects Vladimir Putin to attack.
It feels like the world has been on the precipice of World War 3 after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Despite US president Donald Trump claiming he has a ‘very close relationship’ with the Russian president, has has been unsuccessful in trying to persuade Putin to end the war.
Trump recently called Putin ‘absolutely crazy’ which seems to suggest he is no closer to finding a solution.
Former CIA boss David Petraeus has even suggested that if Putin succeeds in invading Ukraine, he may move onto another country.
While attending the Policy Exchange think-tank in London, Petraeus claimed that Putin wants to take over control of Ukraine and ‘install a puppet leader’.
He said: “Once that’s done, you are going to see them focus on one of the Baltic states. Lithuania has featured prominently in his speeches and we should have listened a lot more.”
He added: “What we’ve seen is three incidences where the US President has threatened that in two weeks we’ll have to take a different approach.
“We’ll see this time what actually happens. The US also temporised far too long over individual decisions such as M1 [Abrams] tanks. A blind man on a dark night could see it had to be the F-16 [a multi- role fighter aircraft].
“There were no more MiGs anywhere in Europe we could provide them [the Ukrainians] with, it had to be F-16s.
“The same with multiple-launch rocket systems, the improved conventional munitions and lifting the limits [on their use].
“This was very unhelpful to the Ukrainians. Each time they’d have to ask and wait, and then we’d say no, and then maybe, and then eventually they’d get it.
“We should have done so much with the Ukrainians that they could change the dynamic on the battlefield to show Moscow they cannot achieve additional gains on the battlefield at an acceptable cost, knowing what is acceptable to them is quite astronomical.”