If Vladimir Putin knew in February 2022 what he knows today, would an invasion still have taken place?
shortly before the Taliban retook Kabul, Washington exhibited a ”hubris that we can somehow take a country that was desolate in 2001 and turn it into little Norway.” Ditto Iraq, where the attempt to transform a dictatorship into a functioning, self-sufficient democracy cost so much blood, treasure and reputation thatIn terms of open, in-depth deliberation, Putin failed across the board.
have been killed in action, according to Norway’s army chief, a number more than 12 times what the Soviet Red Army sustained during its decadelong adventure in Afghanistan. Putin has not only been an ineffective commander in chief over the last 12 months, but also an incompetent strategist. Putin has not only been an ineffective commander in chief over the last 12 months, but also an incompetent strategist. Self-possessed with his own assessments, more interested in his own counsel and surrounded by yes-men petrified of giving him bad news, Putin seems to have persuaded himself that Kyiv’s backers in the West would eventually tire of the war if they felt strain in their pockets.
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