One analyst says the US and Russia have entered a high risk period of of the ongoing war in Ukraine and and says its time for President Biden to de-escalate the war before things get worse.
A side by side photo of President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden said he believes Putin miscalculated Russia's ability to conquer Ukraine.
2. Both Putin and Biden are in a pickle now, each needing to outmaneuver one another. The decades-old rivalry between Moscow and Washington remains institutionally entrenched today. Russia never recovered from the humiliation of losing the Cold War, and Putin spent his entire presidency hatching the plan for a rematch. In Washington, there’s a tremendous institutional predisposition toward teaching Putin a lesson by bloodying his nose for wreaking havoc in Ukraine and undermining U.S.
4. The Russians are predisposed for a"worst-case scenario" assessment of the adversary’s intentions. They take drastic actions, sometimes preemptively. In September 1983, the Soviets, KAL-007, flying to South Korea from Alaska that got tragically off course. The Soviets assumed it was a"spy plane." At no time did the Soviets try to identify the aircraft they shot down, killing 269 people aboard, including a U.S. Congressman. Sensitized to the possibility of a U.S.
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