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What We Learned From the Intervention in Iraq and Syria
Karen Fonhippel was chief of staff to the Global Coalition's special presidential envoy. She says America and the world, and especially the Germans, misread Putin. The West did nothing in any of those situations because there weren't large-scale ground forces. Robert Kaplan: For the first time since 05-06, Washington doesn't feel for a sense of interventionism. It's not about sending troops into Ukraine, it's about getting involved militarily other ways.
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