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Who started the Ukraine war?: Ukrainian agency
We are not your buffer zone Every Western analysis of this war has a protagonist problem. The expansion critics star the United States. The revanchism analysts star Putin. The structural camp stars the system. In all three versions, Ukraine is the terrain the story happens on.... Who started the Ukraine war?: Russian revanchism analysts
The soldiers wore no insignia They moved through Simferopol in unmarked vehicles, surrounded the Crimean parliament, and raised the Russian flag on February 27, 2014. Putin denied they were Russian. Then he admitted it on camera, with a smirk.... Who started the Ukraine war?: NATO expansion critics
The cable they read and ignored Burns sent it February 1, 2008. Four pages, classified. He did not hedge. Ukrainian NATO membership is the brightest of all redlines for the entire Russian political class. Not a Putin problem. A Russia problem.... Who started the Ukraine war?: The Story
The cable that read like a weather forecast In February 2008, the American ambassador to Russia sent a cable to Washington titled "Nyet Means Nyet." William Burns — one of the most carefully calibrated diplomats in the foreign service — wrote that Ukrainian entry into NATO was...