Use your favorite search engine to find the "rand corporation overextending and unbalancing russia" paper. There are dozens of similar papers, also from Brookings: "path to persia"

By the way, the Trump administration also perpetuated this "misinformation" when they pretended to seek peace in January 2025.

> the "rand corporation overextending and unbalancing russia" paper.

This document does not say what you said it says.

> also from Brookings: "path to persia"

This document is about Iran, and has nothing to do with Ukraine.