https://globalsecurityreview.com/an-endgame-in-ukraine/ A division of the National Institute for Deterrence Studies (NIDS) Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://globalsecurityreview.com/an-endgame-in-ukraine/#comment-1272 Fri, 03 Jan 2025 16:57:16 +0000 https://globalsecurityreview.com/?p=29718#comment-1272 Christophe has penned another excellent article. My own thought on the Ukraine Problem now is that the West is going to have to pay a high price for failing to stop Putin’s aggression that started some years ago when he attacked Georgia and then first attacked Ukraine. (Remember the Little Green Men?) POTUS Obama et al ignored the early warning signs of impending aggression by Moscow and then, once the invasions unfolded, responded with anemic sanctions easily evaded. We gave a gimme to Moscow back then and it is sadly just too late to do a do-over now. That would be nonsense, anywhere outside a children’s schoolyard, in the best of circumstances; rendering the geopolitical situation much more intractable is that Russia has highly-usable tactical nuclear supremacy. The entire realpolitik balance sheet is, today, heavily imbalanced toward Russia. President Trump’s team has their work cut out for them.

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