and what happened when putin took part of crimea part of ukraine, then took crimea and the donbas, we totally failed to understand the threat that he posed. and ukraine is paying the price for that with the west looking the other way. i totally agree, and so what we need to do now is make sure that the west is never again vulnerable to putin s blackmail. i think the reality is that, in one important sense, putin has already failed, in that he did not understand what he would encounter when he sent his troops into ukraine. he s still bombing ukrainian men, women and children. he didn t understand the strength of their resistance. what putin needs to realise is that he cannot now succeed. he won t be able to crush and conquer ukraine, because they ve shown, fundamentally, that they have an indomitable spirit. yet the world already looks so different. alliances shifting, unknown possibilities hang in the air.
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