Lawfare Archive: Putin's Imperial Gamble
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The Central Problem - The Presence of Russia in Ukraine
i believe with considerable passion that ukraine has every right to be an independent nation, and that must be understood. But i still feel that there are issues that any ukranian leadership must confront. And the central problem is the presence of russia. No matter how ukraine operates, no matter where it will try to go, economically, politically, diplomatically, even militarily, it must be aware that there is a larger country bordering on ukraine That fiels, whether right or wrong, feels that it has a prior claim to ukraine. Also if, let us say, the west, led by the united states, were to provide ukraine
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