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A Former CIA Official on One Year of Russia's War in Ukraine

Odd Lots

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The Inability of People to Predict These Things to Get Anything Right

The inability of people who try to predict these things to get anything right has been really striking. Most people in their minds would have expected something maybe more akin to the invasion of Crimea, which for the Russian was kind of a cakewalk. It all seems very, very old school in terms of military technology. And then this question of how long can either side take it?

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