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Russia Doubles Down on Invasion

Daniel J. Flynn
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Russia reportedly plans to launch a second-wave invasion of Ukraine in the next two weeks on a grander scale than the first. “Russia is believed to be massing 1,800 tanks, 3,950 armoured vehicles, 400 fighter jets and 300 helicopters for the attack,” the Sun claims.

Russia, according to the story, plans to augment the 300,000 or so troops already in Ukraine with 200,000 more. Does not this mean resolution?

One scenario sees this blitz as too overwhelming for the Ukrainians to repel. A second possibility involves a poorly equipped, poorly trained, and perhaps most importantly difficult-to-supply band of ragtag Russians marching obliviously into a human meat grinder. Either way, an escalation of this sort makes one side or the other suing for peace, without acknowledging that they do so, a greater likelihood than at any point during this longest of one-year wars.

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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.  
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