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Ukraine: Everything Else You Wanted to Know

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Tomas Pueyo
Aug 31, 2023
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1. What If Ukraine Had Better Natural Defenses?

We don’t need much imagination to answer this question. Look at Ukraine’s west.

It’s the only part of Ukraine that has a natural barrier: the Carpathian Mountains. I haven't found a single invasion that came from there.1 So it looks like a few more mountain ranges would have been handy for Ukraine.

But we have…

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