Russia-Ukraine War Alert: What’s Behind It and What Lies Ahead? Carnegie Moscow on GEO´
By Dmitri Trenin via PRChannel Team -
Perhaps the most important thing for the Russian leadership in this episode was to prevent the
need to actually go to war against Ukraine in the future. Going overkill in terms of military
maneuvers on the Ukrainian border now may avoid the need to do terrible things at a later point.
The troops are not yet back at their bases, but the war alert along the Russo-Ukrainian border has passed. In fact, a war was never in the cards. Yet the alert, while it lasted, was profoundly disturbing. For the West, it highlighted the dangers of a large-scale direct clash between Russia and Ukraine. For Russia, which heretofore has dismissed the Donbas conflict as a civil war in Ukraine, it opened up the prospect of having to wage a real war against a large neighboring country. And for Ukraine, such a war might have been existential... Read More
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