America lied about the Iraq war. Then they weren’t believed about Ukraine | Moustafa Bayoumi

Will US intelligence learn its lessons from the Iraq war, and just how badly their legitimacy has been undermined? Four years ago, on 24 February 2022, the Russian military began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, having already occupied Crimea since 2014. Tensions between Ukraine’s government and western leaders on one side and the Kremlin on the other had been escalating for years, but war did not seem like a foregone conclusion, at least not to key European politicians and even to Volodym...

By Moustafa Bayoumi