The Russo-Ukraine war is heating up once again with Russia¡¯s recent mass missile and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv and other areas while Ukraine¡¯s counteroffensive in the southern Kherson region continues, causing Russian authorities to order evacuations there.

Yet, the tipping point appears to have been Ukraine¡¯s recapture of the Kharkiv Oblast region late this summer. Put in terms of World War II, it can be likened to Japan¡¯s fatal defeat in the 1942 Battle of Midway.

Indeed, the echoes of history are clear at every juncture of the unfolding conflict in Ukraine.