Commentary What will happen in Ukraine? You and I, mere mortals, do not know. But Francis “End-of-History” Fukuyama is not so reticent. The owlish foreign-policy intellectual has just issued a list of 12 “prognostications” that are as amazing for their air of certitude as for their preserved-in-amber globalist aspirations. I’d like to comment on a few of those predictions and then say a word or two about their intellectual motor. First, Fukuyama thinks that “Russia is heading for an outright defeat in Ukraine.” That’s possible, I suppose. Almost every commentator says that the invasion did not go as smoothly as Vladimir Putin thought it would. But notwithstanding the endless stories about the pluck and determination of the Ukrainians, the Russians do not seem to have gotten Fukuyama’s memo. Indeed, in the last day or two, many news sites are speaking ominously of an “escalation” of the Russian assault. This seems …
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