What Syria Reveals about Russia-Ukraine (Robert Wright & Joshua Landis)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Middle East
In crimea, you know, nationalism was more or less on his side. And ohe, he presumably was also over extrapolating from the experience in crimea. But there there, the nationalism was on his side; that's overwhelmingly and ethnically russian area. I think he thought iti would collapse, and that the ukranians wouldn't find what they have found under zalenski, which is some kind of unity and real fighting spirit. The power of sanctions makes recovering from this kind of war much, much more difficult. It's its economic growth, ultimately, that can help you rebuild some kind of trust amongst people who've been fighting in the civil
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