Vladimir Putin's folly came in viewing Ukraine as a rebel province rather than a country with an organized resistance
Researcher Kamil Galeev laid it all out in a lengthy Twitter thread today
An independent researcher and journalist from Moscow has written a Twitter thread explaining why Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine isn't going as well as he anticipated.
Kamil Galeev is the former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Wilson Center, which is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank named after former U.S. president Woodrow Wilson.
The Wilson Center houses the Kennan Institute, which has an office in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. The Kennan Institute was founded in 1974 to study what was then the Soviet Union.
According to Galeev's brief biography on the think tank's website, he's also a political activist who was briefly jailed for participating in 2020 protests.
"Galeev completed a Master’s in Economics and Management at Peking University China and then an MLitt in History at St Andrews, the UK," the biography states.
You can read what he's said about the war below.
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499379068139098112
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499380866702786566
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499382719444402176
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499384393227509764
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499386056969498632
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499387063304654848
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499389194388578304
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499391683149983751
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499394465059913729
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499395933762568201
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499398637096341507
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499400244257120257
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499402486548865030
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1499403621091332101
And there's this, from University of Ottawa law and medicine professor Amir Attaran...
https://twitter.com/profamirattaran/status/1499447434937831434
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