Why the War in Ukraine is Russia’s to Lose

Under Vladimir Putin’s leadership, the Russian Federation has been trying to conquer and undermine the regime in Kyiv, Ukraine, since 2014 with the Russian takeover of the Crimea peninsula in that year.

(My behind the paywall link.)

In April 2014, armed pro-Russian separatists seized government buildings in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.

They proclaimed the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) independent states, starting the Donbas War from 2014 to 2022.

This conflict was predominantly a proxy war funded by the Russian government with Russian military equipment, soldiers and mercenaries fighting in Ukraine.

Despite Ukrainian’s heroic resistance to the naked Russian imperialism and conquest of their lands, they have put up a strong defence and a fight that nobody expected.

There was a robust common consensus that the lead of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former comedian and Netflix star, would abandon his nation.

The same way Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, the leader of Afghanistan from 2014 until the overthrow of the Afghan government by the Taliban in 2021.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy truly surprised everyone by holding his nerve, staying in Kyiv, and fighting for his nation; it can be argued that it was his bravery and the commitment of the Ukrainian people that made this war the equivalent of the American Revolutionary…