Nobody dares claim they know how Russia’s cruel and expanding war in Ukraine will end. Or what the ramifications will be for Ukraine, Russia and the world. But several things mark this war as different from others. It’s the first war in which one side has invaded another country ‘traditionally’ with ground troops, and the other side, the West/NATO, is responding using sanctions, isolation from global financial systems and freezing overseas reserves to punish the aggressor. Look at it as a conventional war with another all-out economic war super-imposed over it. Ironically, Ukraine is also fighting a proxy war between NATO and Russia without the security guarantees of the former and with only Ukrainians and Russians dying. NATO wins big time by studying the glaring ineptitude of the Russian army.
This War was not Inevitable
This War was not Inevitable
This War was not Inevitable
Nobody dares claim they know how Russia’s cruel and expanding war in Ukraine will end. Or what the ramifications will be for Ukraine, Russia and the world. But several things mark this war as different from others. It’s the first war in which one side has invaded another country ‘traditionally’ with ground troops, and the other side, the West/NATO, is responding using sanctions, isolation from global financial systems and freezing overseas reserves to punish the aggressor. Look at it as a conventional war with another all-out economic war super-imposed over it. Ironically, Ukraine is also fighting a proxy war between NATO and Russia without the security guarantees of the former and with only Ukrainians and Russians dying. NATO wins big time by studying the glaring ineptitude of the Russian army.