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A mea culpa

What I got wrong (and right) about Ukraine

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Jeremy Appel
Mar 04, 2022
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A member of the far-right Azov Battalion marches in honor of the Day of the Defender of Ukraine in Kyiv in 2020. (Flickr)

I’m out of the prediction business, having spent the better part of the last month ridiculing anyone who thought Russian President Vladimir Putin was going to pull the trigger on Ukraine.

Obviously, I was wrong.

My previous piece on t…

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