1: Ukrainian Questions Posed by Russian Invasion
The Making of Modern Ukraine
Is Russia and Ukraine Separate From the Jews?
Russia and Ukraine as nations definitely didn't exist in the year 988, right? The nation is a modern historical construct characterized by the notion that you feel a kind of solidarity with people you don't know. If I write a book which says on quick chess strategies to defeat Gary Kasparov, then it's like that thing must exist, even though it doesn't exist,. But if I say on this thing, then it exists. And so that kind of implicit assertion of existence is non-historical language. It's the language of legend, the language of myth. This might be a long problem, but with the statement itself is inherently contradictory. So we're going to do a
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