Daily News | Putin must be stopped from turning Kyiv into Aleppo | Trudy Rubin
But why should any Western leader be surprised? Putin has been getting away with war crimes for the past two decades, as his Russian forces slaughtered and gassed civilians in Chechnya, Syria, and elsewhere. No one stopped him.
Let’s start with the First Chechen War in 1995, which happened five years before Putin became president, but gives some insight into the no-holds-barred Russian doctrine of military attack. “The initial Russian operation was premised on terrible assumptions about Ukraine’s ability [and] will to fight, and an unworkable concept of operations,”, a top expert on the Russian military at CNA, who correctly predicted that Putin would invade the entire country of Ukraine.
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