A new genre of strategic analysis, or rather strategic post-factum analysis, has emerged in the West.
Lengthy and programmatic texts are being written with the aim of explaining what the West has failed to do to help Ukraine and justifying what the West has done to hinder Ukraine.
Efforts are made to find countless explanations, all in an attempt to avoid admitting that the West had no credible information about Putin's potential use of nuclear weapons—it was simply afraid. Purely and simply afraid.
And it remains afraid even now.



