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Roger Whitcomb

Roger Whitcomb is a professor emeritus of political science at Kutztown University.

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Russian howitzers are loaded onto train cars Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, at a station outside Taganrog, Russia, near the border with Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been relentlessly building his case against NATO expansion to Russia's borders and against Western democracies since the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008.

Your View: The path for avoiding a Russian-Ukraine war

This writer has commented on these pages over the years about how poorly successive American administrations have understood Russian behavior. The current crisis revolving around Vladimir Putin's alleged intention to...