A Spectre is Haunting…
Russia’s War against Ukraine as Afghanistan 2.0
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
Two years after its defeat in the Afghan war, the multinational Soviet Union disintegrated. Russia, too, is a multi-ethnic state. What will happen to it after a possible military defeat in Ukraine, no one can say. Moscow has failed to understand the central lessons of the fiasco in Afghanistan and is repeating old mistakes in Ukraine. There are numerous parallels, similarities, and congruities. They do not bode well for Putin’s Russia.
(Osteuropa, 3-4/2023, pp. 13–25)