Make no mistake: The tectonic plates of geopolitics have shifted
When 19th-century military analyst Carl von Clausewitz wrote of the “fog of war” to describe the confusion that reigns on battlefields, he had conflicts like Ukraine in mind.
The very word “war” — from an old High German term meaning “confuse” — speaks to the sheer haziness that surrounds soldiers and commanders alike as opposing armies fumble and claw at each other.
Putin’s war in Ukraine is as foggy as any in history. But away from the front lines, the confrontation has paradoxically had the opposite effect.
Like a lightning strike on a dark night, the first flares dropped by Russian planes over Kyiv in February bathed the geopolitical landscape in a blinding flash of clarity.
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