Ukraine: Everything Else You Wanted to Know

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…