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Honor, Deterrence, and Peace

Power Problems

CHAPTER

The Principal Causes of the War in Ukraine

Russia's leader sees himself or wants to see himself as the linear descendant of peter the great kathryn leon and stalom who has built and maintained a great empire it stuck in his craw when the soviet union collapsed. He convinced himself that he could do so almost bloodlessly by sending large numbers of forces into ukraine now we also have to recognize though this is a man who's been in power almost 21 years  he surrounded by lackeys he supported by oligarchs who owe their wealth and continuing fortune to his support.

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