Ukrainian victory may become unique in world history

Another context for the expected Ukrainian offensive.

In recent history, it did happen that a country with nuclear weapons lost a war to a country without nuclear weapons.

But if I'm not mistaken, all such losses can be divided into two categories.

Either the war was fought only with the support of the nuclear powers and did not end in the complete defeat of one of the parties (the Korean War of 1950-1953).

Or the country with nuclear weapons was directly one of the warring parties on the territory of another country, and eventually decided to withdraw its troops from that country, considering the continuation of the war as futile (the United States in Vietnam, China again in Vietnam /1979/, the USSR in Afghanistan).

It has never happened that a country without nuclear weapons simply threw the troops of a country with nuclear weapons out of its territory.

“It has never happened that a country without nuclear weapons simply threw the troops of a country with nuclear weapons out of its territory”

True, it took Stalin's death to end the Korean War, massive protests in the United States and another change of president to withdraw the US army from Vietnam, and Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko had to die first to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan. Therefore, this scenario is definitely not oriented toward the near future.

However, the Ukrainian army's forcible entry to the borders by 2014 would be an unprecedented event in modern history, as no one has ever done this to a nuclear power.

And such a precedent may not be desirable for nuclear powers.

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About the author. Oleksii Panych, philosopher, member of the Ukrainian Center of PEN International, blogger.

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