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Interpreting the First Few Days of the Russo-Ukrainian War

War on the Rocks

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Krane's Fighting Back

Russia has all this air power arrayed on and near ukrane's borders, but it's not using it. Why hasn't Russia shifted posture yet? I think they're being incredibly restrained by use of fires, use of air power. Even as much as you see them firing in the last four days, it's a tiny molicum of russian military because they wanted to avoid high levels of casualties and destruction. They thought that they could avoid the kind of optics that would lead to a tremendous amount of western sanctions. And they were terribly wrong about that. i'm very worriedat very much, the worst in this war is yet to come, right? That russia's

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