2023-07-14 17:44:09
Metaphors that refer to animals are frequently used in military jargon, whether scientifically tenable or not. “Boiling the frog” is one of those. It’s about a frog who doesn’t realize he’s being boiled because the water heats up slowly. Applied to the military, this means increasing the military pressure on the opponent without escalating in a snap. In the case of Russia, this latest escalation would probably be the nuclear weapon and the rising water temperature would be an analogy to the arms shipments from the West. At the beginning of the interview in the library of the Institute for Human Sciences, the most sought-after commentator on the Ukraine war, US historian Timothy Snyders, defends frogs and their intelligence. They would very well jump: President Vladimir Putin will jump too, withdraw from Ukraine because Moscow is losing the war, according to Snyder.
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