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Ukraine on the Offensive

The Intercept Briefing

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The Politics of NATO Expansion

I think there's no question, and you write this quite eloquently in your recent sub-stack piece, is that Vladimir Putin chose to do this. He bears the responsibility for it. But none of that erases the fact that there actually is a political context and a historical context to this. And I would really appreciate hearing from Russia's perspective why Putin believed that this was a justifiable course of action.

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