The dangerous game of red lines in Ukraine
BRANKO MARCETIC
When the United States becomes militarily involved in a conflict, it often finds it difficult to get out, let alone avoid deep entanglements that far exceed the lines it had drawn at the outset of the intervention.
It happened in Vietnam, when American military advisers helping the South Vietnamese fight the Viet Cong eventually became American soldiers fighting an American war. It happened in Afghanistan, when an initial invasion to capture al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban turned into a nearly two-decade nation-building project. And it could be happening right now in Ukraine.












