LESSON No. 1: In battling big powers, especially those with mammoth forces and nuclear weapons like China and Russia, one cannot be sure that allies, even superpower America, would fight on one's side.

Before Russia's invasion, the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance it leads loudly maintained that Ukraine should be allowed to join any grouping it wished.

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