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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did Putin go to war?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Do You Think Russian Public Opinion Has Changed Since the War?

Russian propaganda outlets would even make fun of western intelligence agencies for suggesting that a war was coming. As far as we can tell from the outside, very few of them knew or believed that this war would be coming. A significant percentage who believe that this is a limited, special military operation focused on the donbas rather than a wide scale, full scale invasion of ukraine.

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