Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Russia-Ukraine war chaos

According to an analyst, VLADIMIR Putin’s three major blunders have doomed the Russia-Ukraine invasion to disaster.

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Taras Kuzio, a Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society and author of “Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War,” failed to achieve what it set out to do.

“More than two weeks into the invasion, Russia has only conquered one city, Kherson,” Kuzio writes, “and even there, popular mass protests are blocking a full-fledged occupation.”

“Putin has badly miscalculated in three important areas.”

The first area in which the Russian leader has erred is in his treatment of the Russian people, especially given widespread public support.

Putin’s second blunder, according to Kuzio, is his ‘Tsarist nationalist rejection’ of the existence of a separate Ukraine and Ukrainian people.

The Kremlin dictator’s idea that the West will be divided and apply mild sanctions again, as in 2014, is the third error.

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