HANSON: Ukraine war a prelude to nuclear catastrophe? Via VDHanson
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But now that it has been armed to the teeth and its soldiers proved far more capable and heroic than President Vladimir Putin’s once-feared Russia, Kyiv now seeks to push back Russians to their 2014 Ukrainian-acquired borders. Yet Putin still believes his blunder will not have been a fatal one if he can still destroy much of Eastern Ukraine, institutionalize what he gained in 2014, fracture NATO, propagandize the war as an existential cause of saving Mother Russia from a corrupt West, and reconfigure a new alliance with China, Iran, North Korea and perhaps Turkey and India.
Biden, whose family influence-peddled with Kyiv for a decade, has radically reversed his initial course. No longer is Biden offering a free ride out of Dodge for Zelenskyy or dismissing any worry over a “minor” Russian invasion. The NATO nations are acting uncharacteristically defiant given the war is on their borders. They rightly fear a victorious Putin would be vengeful and not satiated.Article content
Neither Europe nor America, China believes, will want to repeat another proxy war — say, one over Taiwan — against a nuclear power with far more leverage over the West and far greater wherewithal on the battlefield.Article content
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