
Michael McFaul @McFaul
Putin had a run of military victories, Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014, Syria 2015, but he overreached in Ukraine 2022. Brezhnev also had a string of Marxist-Leninist victories --Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, Nicaragua -- but he overreached in Afghanistan. 1/ — PolitiTweet.org