Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked

Deadlocked Wars: How Major Powers Misread the Regions They Attacked: Russia and the United States projected their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, analysts said. As a result, the smaller countries trapped larger ones in a costly confrontation. By Neil MacFarquhar President Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir V. Putin, both resist the idea that ostensibly weaker powers fought them to a stalemate, with the