In The Art of War, Sun Tzu writes: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, in 100 battles you will never be in peril. But if you are ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”
Vladimir Putin turned out to be ignorant in both ways. He underestimated the Ukrainians and overestimated his own military forces. This is not a matter of poor strategy, just one of ignorance.
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