What has happened is that the Russians have redeployed,

regrouped, and adapted to something

that is far more favorable to their style of war

and their geography.

And what they tried to do in Kiev seemed so unlikely

because no one could figure out how it would be successful and it turned out

that that's because it wasn't going to be successful.

What's going on in the East is much more like the Russian way of war,

which is very artillery, dependent,

their supply lines are a lot shorter to Russia than they were before.

They're a lot more secure than they were before.

And this is the kind of war that Russians know how to fight better than the kind they tried in the beginning. We just passed the first 100-day mark of the 2022 Russian War against Ukraine.

Here are a few things we know so far. While some analysts had

feared that extending NATO to Central Europe and the Baltics would provoke Russia, in a

sense the opposite is true. It was Putin's invasion that actually accelerated

NATO expansion and catalyzed some countries that had historically shied away from being

under the NATO umbrella.

For starters, just look at Finland and Sweden.

And then there's Germany whose new government has abandoned the post-World War II limitations

on its military.

Based on new commitments made by Chancellor Olaf Schultz,

the German military is poised to be one of the more important

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