A perpetual struggle: The Ukraine War

 "The US intelligence community — with its astute effort to publicly release large amounts of unclassified data in early 2022 — may have robbed Putin of surprise in attacking Ukraine, but his invasion was still plenty shocking. European observers spoke of a “1939 moment” — a case of unprovoked, large-scale aggression that threatened to rupture the global order. But a combination of desperate Ukrainian resistance, inadequate Russian preparation, and emergency assistance from the West helped thwart this authoritarian onslaught."

source https://www.aei.org/op-eds  presemted by https://www.aei.org/profile/hal-brands/  also photo

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