Revelation that Russian intelligence units paid bounties to kill US and UK troops in Afghanistan has sparked a new turn in geopolitics & US elections. In episode 509 of ThePrint's #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta brings you the details. Plus, an insight into why India failed to assess China's motives.Read here: https://theprint.in/world/russia-rubbishes-reports-that-it-paid-bounties-for-taliban-to-kill-us-allied-soldiers/451172/Read NYT's article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.htmlRead Washington Post's article here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/russian-bounties-to-taliban-linked-militants-resulted-in-deaths-of-us-troops-according-to-intelligence-assessments/2020/06/28/74ffaec2-b96a-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.htmlRead Micheal Schwirtz's article on how a poisoning in Bulgaria exposed Russian assassins in Europe: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/world/europe/bulgaria-russia-assassination-squad.html?searchResultPosition=3Read Mujib Mashal's article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html?searchResultPosition=7Read MK Narayanan's article here: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/making-sense-of-chinas-calculations/article31940534.eceRead this NYT article on how spies had warned of Russian bounties months ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/us/politics/russian-bounties-warnings-trump.html?referringSource=articleShare