One Year of War in Ukraine

Melanie, Zack, and Chris, survey the course of Russia’s brutal
war of aggression in Ukraine at the one-year point, with a focus
on a recent paper by RAND’s Samuel Charap and Miranda Priebe. How
did we get here? What key assumptions have been tested? And what
does that mean for the future? How do U.S. and Ukrainian
interests in this war align or conflict? Does a long war serve
anyone’s interest? And what are the prospects that this war will
end any time soon? Grievances for China’s mishandling of the
balloon fiasco, and to Disney for bowing to the Chinese Communist
Party’s implicit censorship. Attapeople to those negotiating a
new Compact of Free Association with countries in the South
Pacific, for the few smart voices trying to dial down the
hysteria over balloons, and to those members of Congress hoping
to repeal the 2002 Iraq war AUMF.


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https://warontherocks.com/2023/02/one-year-of-war-in-ukraine