"Why couldn't they have predicted the Russia's invasion of Ukraine?!"
"There is a misreading on the Russian side also."
One expert analyzes the situation as follows.
Despite prior warnings, the failure to accurately predict a large-scale military invasion of Ukraine by Russia was due to a misreading of the implications of President Putin's mindset (pattern of thinking) and the imbalance between resources, military power, and economic power.
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