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jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Putin’s American adventure might be best understood as advance payment for a geopolitical grail closer to home: a vassal Ukrainian state. Thrumming beneath the whole election saga was another story — about Ukraine’s efforts to establish a modern democracy and, as a result, its position as a hot zone of the new Cold War between Russia and the West, autocracy and democracy’
well worth re-reading this analytic piece from last November
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-manafort-ukraine-war.html