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Ukraine, Russia and the U.S.

Lectures in History

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Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Is a Russian Vulnerability

Russia now controls between 20 and 25 percent of Ukrainian territory Ukraine is a country the size of Texas so it's not a small country. I'm going to guess that Russia will do everything it can to hold on to this territory or perhaps to acquire to acquire more. Putin may be measuring his successes in territorial terms in other words not has every battle gone but how many weapons is President Zelensky saying in Kiev? The greater the territory that we have around us the more secure that we are at home, says Peter Bergen.

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