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The War in Ukraine, One Year On

Russian Roulette

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Is Putin's Radicalism a Part of Decision-Making in Russia?

Dara O'Brien: I think that you can divide Putin's motivations into at least two categories in trying to understand the question of why he invaded. One is a Russia that sees the outside world in imperial terms and has a particular cultural attitude toward Ukraine, she says. The radicalism of this perspective is something that escaped me before the war began, but now I acknowledge it as part of Russian decision-making," writes O'Brien. 'The sense that dawned on Putin's part that he was losing Ukraine,' adds O'Brien,. 'and so the war in this context is not a cultural project or an imperial project, but is an aspect of Russian strategy'

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