As of this writing, predictions of a Russian day or two romp through Ukraine, all the way to the point of threatening NATO countries, have proven wrong. Profoundly wrong.
War is always unpredictable.
But clearly much of the American news coverage underestimated both the totalitarian appetite of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the grit and determination of the outgunned and outmanned Ukrainian people, a resolve against Putin’s designs that has inspired the West and caused Europe to rethink its dependence on Russian energy. In response to the United States’ offer of evacuation to a…
