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Newsletter Nr. 978
Amsterdam, May 9th, 2022


THE INVASION OF UKRAINE - What It Means For Us and How We Can Help - ADRIAN J. IVAKHIV

One of the big questions around all of this has been: what is this man [Putin] who happens to have the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet at his fingertips, what is he thinking? Russia's nuclear arsenal is larger than the US's. The US still has the largest military (though in terms of numbers of people in the military China's is larger). Most analysts have been trying to understand Putin's logic as if he were a rational actor who's acting on the basis of interests, strategic goals, and the calculation of costs and benefits, and in the past this has more or less worked. He's had a long history as a politician going back to 1999, that has included various power grabs including wars and military incursions in Chechnya, which helped him rise to the top of the Russian political establishment, and in Georgia in 2008, in Syria, and of course in Crimea and now all of Ukraine.

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