Four years ago, on Aug. 26, 2021, a suicide bomber entered the thronging, panicking Afghans massed outside Abbey Gate at the Kabul, Afghanistan airport. The Biden administration had suddenly announced the abandonment of U.S. citizens, military equipment, allies, and friends, sacrificing 20 years of blood and treasure on the altar of feckless foreign policy. The coup de grâce was the detonation of a madman that killed 13 U.S. servicemembers and 169 civilians.

The world watched in horror. Vladimir Putin watched in fascination.

It was the flashpoint that ended U.S. presence in Afghanistan. It was also the flashpoint that launched the war in Ukraine.

Historians will look back on Russia’s incursion into Ukraine and examine all the reasons why – the geopolitical premises, the cultural and h

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