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New analysis from the New York Times World desk drops a bombshell on global strategy. Both the United States and Russia, it seems, profoundly misread the regions they attacked. Projecting their own centralized views onto Ukraine and Iran, these major powers stumbled. The result? Smaller nations effectively trapped their larger adversaries in devastating, costly confrontations. Billions squandered, countless lives lost, all because of a fundamental misunderstanding of the battlefield.