Thread by @gigapacho

Six months, 23 lessons: What the world has learned from #Russia's #War in #Ukraine️
Very good piece by @AtlanticCouncil
H/T @EtoBuziashvili
atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atla…
I'm gonna make this a thread, just in case 🧵

Lesson for Western diplomacy: Don’t second-guess Ukrainians

Lesson for global diplomacy: Putin’s regime can’t be trusted—and needs to be defeated

Lesson for US foreign policy: The United States can no longer rely on strategic ambiguity

Lesson for US national security: Washington must contend with Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran at the same time

Lesson for military operations: Equipment doesn’t win wars. People do.

Lesson for military planning: Nimble modern weapons can defeat larger, conventionally armed forces—especially when on the defensive

Lesson for deterrence: Troop deployments work better than threats of economic sanctions

Lesson for the global economy: The new tools of conflict are economic—and they are powerful

Lesson for economic statecraft: Don’t separate sanctions from longer-term foreign-policy objectives

Lesson for economic statecraft: Sanctions work, but they are messy and take time

Lesson for wartime strategic communications: Influence operations are a day-in, day-out job

Lesson for hybrid warfare: Don’t ignore the fundamentals

Lesson for the energy sector: Decades of energy diplomacy can disappear with one brutal invasion

Lesson for global intelligence: Russia is not ten feet tall

Lesson for would-be invaders: You can’t hide preparations for a full-scale invasion

Lesson for cybersecurity: The private sector should play a critical military-operational role in cyberspace

Lesson for US homeland security: Ignoring the home front is a serious mistake

Lesson for US assistance policy: Invest deeply in key resilient partners

Lesson for NATO: The Alliance is a uniquely valuable institution that requires enduring political and financial investment

Lesson for Ukraine: There’s no way back for relations with Russia

Lesson for China: Today’s Ukraine is not tomorrow’s Taiwan

Lesson for Middle East policymakers: America will always do the right thing, but only after exhausting all the alternatives

Lesson for Germany and its allies: Seize this moment for a strategic reversal

At the end of the thread - Georgia HAS to take all those lessons and add some of its own, but I'm afraid, the current government isn't able to do so :/ 🧵