Trump and Putin have a joint plan for destroying the European Union.
Trump is manhandling the Europeans with tariffs and threatening to annex Greenland and Canada while claiming that these two countries are a greater danger to US interests than his own border with Russia in Alaska.
Putin is depleting the European Union of its resources in a protracted war in Ukraine that neither he nor Trump seem too eager to bring to an end. Trump always lies. When he said he can solve the Ukraine war in 24 hours, he knew he was lying to his MAGA herd of morons; in fact he meant the exact opposite. He is as interested as Putin is in dragging the Ukraine war as long as they can to keep weakening the EU: Trump on the western flanks of Europe and Putin on its eastern flanks.
Now we learn that Putin's next step, should an agreement be reached over Ukraine, is to dispatch thousands of his criminal Russian soldiers, terrorists and rapists into the EU to wreak havoc there. In the agreement, Putin will insist in the ceasefire agreement on open borders and limited restrictions on travel by Russians into the EU.
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Putin ‘will send thousands of criminals to wreak havoc across Europe’
Joe Barnes
Sun, February 1, 2026
Vladimir Putin could send Russian soldiers to Europe to wreak havoc, according to the Estonian foreign minister
Vladimir Putin is preparing to send hundreds of thousands of former soldiers to wreak havoc across Europe after any ceasefire in Ukraine, Estonia’s foreign minister told The Telegraph.
Margus Tsahkna has proposed a blanket ban on Russian soldiers who fought in Ukraine from the European Union’s Schengen free-travel zone in response to the Kremlin’s plans to dispatch “ex-prisoners and rapists” to wage hybrid war in the bloc.
He invited the UK to join the scheme to boost collaboration in order to prepare the continent for what could be “very, very sudden security risk for Europe” after a potential peace deal.
“We have close to one million combatants in Russia right now,” Mr Tsahkna told The Telegraph on the sidelines of an EU meeting in Brussels.
“Russia and Putin are already using different people to commit attacks on our societies, but when there will be peace, we can imagine that we will have hundreds of thousands of ex-combatants coming to Europe.
“And they’re definitely not going with good plans to earn their own salaries and pay taxes. They come with real bad plans. We already see the special agencies of Russia organising different attacks in Europe.”
Margus Tsahkna wants a blanket ban on Russian soldiers who fought in Ukraine - David Rose for The Telegraph
The Estonian’s fear is Putin will use any pause in the fighting in Ukraine to refocus his aggression on Europe through hybrid warfare.
Europe and Britain have seen a sharp rise in Russian-linked sabotage operations since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of its neighbour.
In 2024, Kremlin proxies were linked to an arson attack on an east London warehouse which was storing satellite communication devices for Ukraine.
While counter-terror police investigating an alleged arson attack on a property owned by Sir Keir Starmer last year are looking into Russian involvement.
Similar, often mysterious, high-profile incidents have been reported across mainland Europe in recent years.
Over the past six months Estonia’s security services have been looking into how Putin could use former soldiers to further ramp up his hybrid war against Nato.
“They are perfect for this mission, ” Mr Tsahkna said. “But they definitely have a very bad background, and also mentally, you know they have been killing, raping… so this is a very, very sudden danger for European security.”
That is why Mr Tsahkna has asked his EU colleagues to consider a blanket ban on entry for former Russian combatants from the Schengen zone, as well as an embargo on work visas and residence permits.
The bloc’s free-movement zone covers 29 countries, spanning from the Balearic islands to the Baltics.
In a diplomatic note circulated to EU foreign ministers, seen by The Telegraph, Estonia warned that there are an estimated 1.5 million Russian citizens who have taken part in the war in Ukraine, with around 640,000 still in active service.
“We see ex-prisoners and rapists, all of these crazy guys, on the battlefield, and Putin doesn’t want that in Russia,” Mr Tsahkna warned.
“They will be weaponised. They will be sent to Europe… And we know exactly how to fight against the Russian military as Nato, but this is more dangerous, and we need to act now while they’re still stuck on the battlefield.”
The warning from Estonia is the latest from a Nato country arguing that Europe needs to be more vigilant against the Russian threat - Jeff J Mitchell/Getty
The minister said individual EU countries are already capable of implementing their own embargo on former Russian soldiers entering at the bloc’s external borders.
Estonia imposed a ban on 261 ex-combatants earlier this month amid fears that criminal offences were being committed by former service personnel.
“Up to 180,000 convicted prisoners were recruited directly from Russian penal colonies into special military units,” Estonian intelligence presented in its document.
“Many returnees have already committed serious crimes. The total number of which has reached a 15-year high in Russia in the first of 2025, and this upsurge is likely linked to the mass return of ex-combatants.”
Mr Tsahkna said he had been given positive feedback from his colleagues for his proposals for an EU-wide ban, and said the bloc’s prime ministers and presidents could issue political guidance at their next Brussels meeting.
Tallinn is already sharing the names of suspected Russian soldiers who could attempt to travel to the EU after any ceasefire in Ukraine.
‘We need to do this now’
Asked whether Britain could play a role in the blanket ban, the minister told The Telegraph: “We are already collaborating a lot if you’re talking about terrorists and these kinds of not good persons who want to enter.
“I see lots of opportunities to co-ordinate this as well with states who are not members of Schengen.
“But we need to do it right now, we’re not ready for peace, Europe is not ready for peace.”
The UK, even while a member of the EU, was not a part of the bloc’s Schengen free-movement zone. However, Sir Keir’s post-Brexit reset in relations with Brussels has attempted to secure better access to EU crime and migration databases for the UK.
In theory, Britain could gain access to any EU list of former Russian soldiers to implement its own ban, while also sharing intelligence in the opposite direction.
A UK government spokesman said: “Border security is national security, and we have strict measures at our disposal to protect our country against the threat from Russia.
“We will continue working in partnership with our allies to bring our full capabilities to bear against those who seek to threaten our values, harm our citizens, and undermine our collective security.”
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