Tom Cooper is a military analyst and historian who's been one of the most objective voices covering the conflict in Ukraine. The idea was to land on four major airports around Kiev and from there drive into downtown Kiev to whether kill or at least arrest the government and replace it, but somebody who would have been friendlier to Putin. And because of this, the initial ballistic and cruise missile strikes were not as intensive or as effective as they might have been if there was a wish to really knock out the Ukrainian armed forces right from the start.

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