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This is How Putin's Strategic Patience May Pay Off in Ukraine

This is How Putin's Strategic Patience May Pay Off in Ukraine

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EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Russia is gradually beginning to prevail in Ukraine and the West is just starting to lose focus. Neither France and Germany nor the US and UK have coherent ideas for how this war will end. And there is no credible deal with Putin that anyone can trust. So, some new thinking is required. The Black Sea and Belarus provide two options.

(Ed Note:  A UK-version of this piece by Cipher Brief Expert Tim Willasey-Wilsey was first published by The Scotsman)

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