Ukraine’s counteroffensive evinces the need for an end to ‘Westsplaining’

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Hats off to Ukrainian planners for a brilliant maneuver — feinting a counteroffensive in the Kherson Oblast, then launching their main effort into the Kharkiv Oblast, catching Russian ground forces off-guard. This has forced the Russians to abandon their equipment, adopt civilian clothing, escape back to the Russian side of the border, and thus cede previously captured territory back to the Ukraine military.

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