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In my article published on January 31 about chaos in the world, I said wrongly regarding the then threatening storm in Ukraine: "The Russians, with a third-party economy and humiliated since the 1990s by NATO's hostile expansionism, are challenging Biden in Ukraine.(Probably the Germans will understand each other with them, ignoring the American hystericals today.)"
Events have contradicted my prediction. The Russians, far from mounting a bluff, launched with all premeditation, treachery, and advantage a large-scale military invasion throughout Ukrainian territory on February 24. I underestimated Putin's determination to attack a country in the heart of Europe without embarrassment and massively, something that the American intelligence services, it must be said now, correctly evaluated.
Why did I underestimate the Russians? Because of how unlikely it seemed to me that the Russians were so reckless, irresponsible and risky as to get into another "quagmire" - losing international legitimacy... READ MORE
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