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The big one

The whole world holds its breath

Putin dusts off millennia-old chronicles, finding in them proof of his reactionary utopia, his imagined historical right to possess Ukraine. Let’s talk about the most underestimated cause of this war — ideological obsession. The Russian idée fixe.

London and Washington were right about the Russian invasion, but failed to persuade European powers. They underestimated Ukrainian resistance and overestimated Russian power, just as Putin had. Four years later, the war continues.

A left that fails to analyze the causal role of Western militarism, even when analyzing the crimes of its adversaries, risks becoming a moralizing appendage to the very power structures it claims to oppose.

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A time to try our souls