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As Moscow’s leader makes new bellicose threats, what the term ‘escalation’ gets wrong about Ukraine striking Russia Ukraine

As Moscow’s leader makes new bellicose threats, what the term ‘escalation’ gets wrong about Ukraine striking Russia

Over 1,000 days of war, Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly warned Kyiv’s Western allies of dire – potentially nuclear – consequences if they “escalate” the war by giving Ukraine the weapons it needs to defend itself. Putin’s threats became even fiercer this month after the Biden administration finally gave…
bubmag
November 29, 2024
Russia’s Redlines Ukraine

Russia’s Redlines

Foreign Affairs The U.S. is playing with fire in Ukraine. Last week’s decision by Russian president Vladimir Putin to launch an intermediate-range ballistic missile against a military complex located in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro (population 937,000) was a response to a prior Ukrainian attack on Russian territory that made…
bubmag
November 29, 2024