Colonialism’s Limits

[David Morris]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/2/2083243/-This-week-on-The-Brief-The-Russian-invasion-of-Ukraine-There-is-no-way-for-Russia-to-win

Friedman laid out how he envisions the war unfolding in the coming weeks
and months:

It’s going to be a really, really big shock to these guys once they get
inside Kyiv. [If I were Russian,] I would turn around and come back the way
I came. Russia is eventually going to be able to overpower the Ukrainian
army when it comes to breaking into the cities, just by sheer brute force,
they will. But then, once they get in there, then they have to sustain
themselves, and they have to pacify the population, and they have to be
able to set up some form of governance, and all this stuff. They’re not
going to be able to do that because everybody in Kyiv hates them. And it’s
going to become a living nightmare for these guys once they get inside the
city.

As Friedman sees it, if they were to take Kyiv, Russian troops would be
trapped and unable to leave, creating “an absolute nightmare of an
insurgency” against them.

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Brandon Friedman is CEO of McPherson Square Group and cofounder of Rakkasan
Tea Company, which sells loose leaf teas from post-conflict areas. Friedman
has served two tours with the Army’s 101st Airborne Division in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and is author of the memoir *The War I Always Wanted.*