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New recruits of the First Da Vinci Wolves Separate Mechanized Battalion, named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo, attend a military exercise in an undisclosed location in central Ukraine, March 12, 2024.

Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters

Mark Wright listened to the debate Noah and I had about Ukraine on Charlie Cooke’s podcast. He has three questions. Quickly, I’ll try to answer them.

Why are you so sure that a confident Western alliance couldn’t have muscled Russia out of Ukraine without firing a shot in 2008 by placing Kyiv under the U.S. nuclear umbrella?

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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