Is There a Massive Land Invasion in Ukraine?

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There was this like armchair quarter backing about what was going to happen when i got to ukraine in the middle of february. People were definitely freaked out. There was people not wholeheartedly dismissing orpooh pooing the idea of invasion. A lot of people left kif as it became clear that it really could happen. And there was a lot of confusion and frustration, which i think continues even now,. three weeks into the war, but about why the west isn't doing more.

Joshua Yaffa is a correspondent for The New Yorker, the author of Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia, and has been reporting from Ukraine for the last several weeks. His most recent article is "What the Russian Invasion Has Done to Ukraine."

“I’m not at all a conflict reporter. I don't like it, though who would like being in these situations? But this is the story, right? If you cover this part of the world, if the war in 2014 felt like the tectonic plates of history were shifting, now they're just erupting, crashing. This is the asteroid-impact event for this part of the world with effects that will last similarly long going forward.”

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