On March 8, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security nonresident senior fellow Ronald Marks III was interviewed on a CNN segment on Russian operations in Ukraine. Marks discusses Putin’s strategic miscalculations in Ukraine, calling him “a spy, not a military man.”
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