So this article was worth a paid subscription. I haven't trusted anything coming out of Moscow for years, and don't understand the talking heads who argue against the war in Ukraine. I believe these people are insular and terribly short-sighted. Looking into the future from a geopolitical point of view, letting Putin forge ahead unchecke…
So this article was worth a paid subscription. I haven't trusted anything coming out of Moscow for years, and don't understand the talking heads who argue against the war in Ukraine. I believe these people are insular and terribly short-sighted. Looking into the future from a geopolitical point of view, letting Putin forge ahead unchecked to gobble up the former Soviet Union could never end well. He'd be so stoked with his own power he'd just keep going. Would there have potentially been a better moment to draw the line in the sand?
I think we had a real opportunity to impose actual consequences in 2014. But we didn't want to stick up for Ukraine then, and our cohesion on even the meager sanctions we implemented waned in the years before 2022. We needed to be more blunt about Russia's aims then.
So this article was worth a paid subscription. I haven't trusted anything coming out of Moscow for years, and don't understand the talking heads who argue against the war in Ukraine. I believe these people are insular and terribly short-sighted. Looking into the future from a geopolitical point of view, letting Putin forge ahead unchecked to gobble up the former Soviet Union could never end well. He'd be so stoked with his own power he'd just keep going. Would there have potentially been a better moment to draw the line in the sand?
I think we had a real opportunity to impose actual consequences in 2014. But we didn't want to stick up for Ukraine then, and our cohesion on even the meager sanctions we implemented waned in the years before 2022. We needed to be more blunt about Russia's aims then.