Elizabeth Warren's overseas education continues in Poland and Estonia
WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren continued her overseas military education this week, traveling to Eastern Europe and Germany to discuss the Russian threat.
Warren’s five-day trip started in Poland, where she met with US and Polish officials, and visited US troops stationed in Poznan and Powidz, including having dinner with a unit of Army reservists from Brockton. On Wednesday, she continued on to Estonia, before finishing her tour in Germany.
Her meetings and briefings focused on efforts to counteract Russian efforts to damage European democracies, Warren said in an interview with the Globe from US Army Europe Headquarters in Wiesbaden, Germany.
“Europe is being tested right now by Russia’s aggressive and destabilizing actions in Ukraine, in Montenegro, and elsewhere,” Warren said, citing actions that include cyberattacks and an onslaught of fake news and other propaganda, as seen in the 2016 US elections. “These asymmetric tactics are part of Putin’s playbook. The United States must be there to ensure that our European allies and partners are ready,” she said, not only with conventional forces and equipment “but also with strong capabilities in cyberspace and in countering Russian propaganda that seeks to undermine democracy in Europe.”
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