Ben Hodges: Putin has killed and tried to kill the state’s enemies

Can sharp rhetoric escalate into an armed US-China conflict in the coming years? As Ben Hodges, the former US Army Commander in Europe, emphasized for the "Pasaules Panorama", this cannot be ruled out. Speaking about Biden's position towards Russia, the retired general and now Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies for the European Policy Analysis Center (CEPA) sums up - direct language only helps, because if you are being pushed around by a bully, you punch him right in the nose.