
Michael McFaul @McFaul
After a string of communist wins around the world in the 1970s, Brezhnev overreached in Afghanistan. We know how that ended. Putin too has had a string of military wins -- Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014, Syria 2015 -- but this 5th war also seems like an overreach. — PolitiTweet.org