What Can History Tell Us About Ukraine’s Future?
The Foreign Affairs Interview
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Historian Margaret McMillan writes in a new essay for Foreign Affairs that the residents of World War I goes well beyond the images. The history can help us understand what might come next in the war itself, she says. Just as importantly it holds a warning about what happens after the fighting stops - when the end of one war can lay the groundwork for another. Going to great power from being a lesser power is never easy, and Putin was motivated by something much more personal than his desire to rebuild the Empire.
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