![]() ![]() In the south, Russia’s advance has been radically more successful. Russia’s slowness in conquering Kyiv has created the sense that things are going better, in general, for Ukraine than they really are. ![]() Western attention, however, has been disproportionally focused on the northern front, where no major cities (at the time of writing) have been captured. A smart strategy requires winning both wars simultaneously. The differences between the two are so great that they remind one of the opening stages of the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, when distinctly different conditions shaped Israel’s two fronts, in the Sinai and Golan Heights. The war in Ukraine is, geopolitically speaking, two wars in one: the war in the north and the war in the south.
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