America Is Afraid of War. Putin Knows It.

A poster of Putin is used as target practice along a trench on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists in the Lugansk region. (Photo by Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
The invasion of Ukraine and the rise of America’s isolationists.
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Early Thursday morning, Russia began invading Ukraine. There have been reports of airstrikes in Kiev, the capital, and more than a dozen other cities. The 190,000 Russian troops that had been stationed around the Ukrainian border are now streaming over it. Ukraine has declared martial law.
The invasion, Putin explained just before it began, was not reall…
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