This former soldier sees a cold war turning hot, and quickly. The Ukrainians are living the nightmare that haunted our waking dreams more than three decades ago.
A blown-off tank turret lies on the ground on the outskirts of Kharkiv, northeastern Ukraine.
It turned out to be only a drill, a drill that would repeat itself many times in the course of a three-year tour. The specter of a Russian invasion of Europe dominated our lives. We practiced relentlessly, snow or rain or shine, how to stop tank columns in their tracks if they came thundering across the German border. Deterring that threat was our sole reason for existence.
The Ukrainian army likely studied those same tactics. Ukrainian volunteers have had to learn them on the job. It takes a special kind of courage to get close enough to a tank to take it out with a Molotov cocktail. But getting close is the point — a tank commander’s worst nightmare is dismounted infantry running around in his blind spot.
Now Putin’s aggression, and his dreams of resurrecting Russian glory, combined with the rise of China, presage a terrible new world order. The drawdown of our military presence in Europe might have been a bit premature.
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