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What Really Matters with Walter Russell Mead

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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Ukraine was a very, very poor place in 1991. In many ways comparatively even poorer because it has not actually been much of a success since 1991 economically. The richest part in the old days was the Donbas, which is now most devastated by war. But they were, they would be ultimately integrated into the EU and NATO, into the West.

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