>>However with the Russians in there as well, we should be very careful not creating WWIII
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>My guess is that Putin just took another way to put more pressure on the West, stimulating the trek of refugees further as Merkel has trouble after declaring welcome policy without any reservation. But there I am very uncertain, as Putin is hard to second-guess.

Stimulating but not initiating it. I've seen them here in early july, and it wasn't the start of the wave.