September 28th, 2023

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"As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an “anti-Russia” project. Putin went to war to force Ukraine back into the fold of the “Russian world.” Ukraine resisted, determined to pursue European integration as a sovereign state. These irreconcilable goals, rather than geopolitical wrangling between Russia and the West over NATO expansion, are essential to understanding Russia’s war on Ukraine."