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The War in Ukraine, One Year On

Russian Roulette

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Is It a Personality Conflict or a Rejection of the Approach of the Russians?

I think they thought that if they annexed for Ukrainian Oblast and declare them as Russia, then they can threaten nuclear weapons. Maybe they were themselves going back to the Krimia example because nobody really militarily contested that. And so they took a step they didn't want to do, which was mobilization. They're trying to set conditions that would make very difficult for a Ukrainian counter-offensive. There's some reports today that air power is moving around the border. satellite imagery of them creating, you know, tent camps where they can house thousands of mobilized.

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