Five takeaways from The Post’s examination of the road to war in Ukraine
Road to war: U.S. struggled to convince allies, and Zelensky, of risk of invasion - "But Paris and Berlin remembered emphatic U.S. claims about intelligence on Iraq. The shadow of that deeply flawed analysis hung over all the discussions before the invasion. Some also felt that Washington, just months earlier, had vastly overestimated the resilience of Afghanistan’s government as the U.S. military was withdrawing. The government had collapsed as soon as the Taliban entered Kabul.
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"Each side was convinced it was right but was willing to proceed as if it might be wrong.
"Over the next several months, the Americans strove to show the Western Europeans and others that they were still willing to search for a peaceful resolution, even though in the back of their minds, they were convinced that any Russian efforts at negotiation were a charade. 'It basically worked,' Sullivan said of the administration strategy."
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