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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.