A US military aircraft with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on board prepares to land at Sungshan Airport in Taipei on August 2, 2022. – Pelosi landed in Taiwan on August 2 evening, defying days of increasingly stark warnings from China that have sent tensions between the world’s two superpowers soaring.(Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)
This picture taken on Sept. 22, 2021 shows honor guards marching in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. Beijing views Taiwan as part of China. (Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)
Russia — in its Soviet incarnation — was the source of Ukraine’s infrastructure. Postwar pipes for everything from water to telecommunications in Ukraine is Russian in origin.