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Ukraine and an Assessment of how a Bad Situation Could Get Much Worse

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Posted: February 27th, 2022

By Rob Dannenberg

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA's Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency.  He served as managing director and head of the Office of Global Security for Goldman Sachs, and as director of International Security Affairs at BP.  He is now an independent consultant on geopolitical and security risk.

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE – What we are witnessing in Ukraine is a tragedy that, just a few months ago, many considered unthinkable – no, unimaginable: a large-scale land war on the European continent via the invasion of a neutral and peaceful country by a far-superior military power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to attack Ukraine followed months of military build-up in the territory between the Russian Federation and the Union State of Belarus, under the disguise of a military exercise. 

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