Jim Geraghty
National Review, Feb. 24, 2022
“We are witnessing, on our television screens and through the web, the largest land war in Europe since 1945, an unprovoked attack by an autocratic superpower with nuclear weapons against a flawed but independent democracy that had committed no crime or provocation.”
On the menu today: Russia has invaded Ukraine, and it is likely that we are about to witness a horrifying bloodbath of modern war. Far too many of those who confidently declared Vladimir Putin would never launch a full-scale invasion fell into the “mirroring” trap. The U.S. strategy of deterring an invasion by threatening sanctions failed — and it is important to understand why. Finally, back in October 2019, Joe Biden pledged that, “Putin knows that when I am president of the United States, his days of tyranny and trying to intimidate the United States and those in Eastern Europe, are over.” So much for that.
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