What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Putin’s Obsession With Ukraine
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Is Russia a Nation State?
i wonder if you could elaborate on that a little bit more and explain the bigger story you see here. Ye, i mean, outright conquest has become pretty rareand when it does happen, there's usually a pretty strong international response to it. What do you mean now, russia doesn't come in and just say, we're conquering parts of yu krane. What it says is, you know, crimea held this referendum on their own. We are recognizing the results of that referendum. So we're here for freedom wer. We're just backing them. And so what he's gradually weakening these norms against international conquest. In some ways, that may be more dangerous.
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