Regarding Ukraine, Russia, and intelligence sharing: If we’re not there now, we have no reason to believe we won’t end up there before the war’s over. I wish I didn’t see things this way, but to be more upbeat, wars don’t always end the way the people who start them expect. Moscow wanted a quick victory; they got a grinding war that’s ex…
Regarding Ukraine, Russia, and intelligence sharing: If we’re not there now, we have no reason to believe we won’t end up there before the war’s over. I wish I didn’t see things this way, but to be more upbeat, wars don’t always end the way the people who start them expect. Moscow wanted a quick victory; they got a grinding war that’s exposed their weaknesses. Authoritarians consolidate power until the moment they can’t—and that moment always comes.
Regarding Ukraine, Russia, and intelligence sharing: If we’re not there now, we have no reason to believe we won’t end up there before the war’s over. I wish I didn’t see things this way, but to be more upbeat, wars don’t always end the way the people who start them expect. Moscow wanted a quick victory; they got a grinding war that’s exposed their weaknesses. Authoritarians consolidate power until the moment they can’t—and that moment always comes.