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Aris Messinis / AFP / Getty The Atlantic Daily: What to Read to Understand the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
As Vladimir Putin sets a Russian invasion of Ukraine into motion, the West is united in its response.
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Chris McGrath / Getty The Russian Incursion No One Is Talking About
While the world watches Ukraine, Moscow is making moves in neighboring Belarus, too.
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Alexey Nikolsky / Sputnik / AFP Putin Chooses a Forever War
His partition of Ukraine is an attack on global peace.
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Sasha Mordovets / Getty Vladimir Putin’s Hall of Mirrors
The Russian president sees the world through the lens of maskirovka and provokatsiia.
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Tobias Hase / AP There Are No Chamberlains in This Story
But there are no Churchills, either. And Ukraine will fight alone.
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Allison Joyce / AFP / Getty Putin Has Made America Great Again
The Ukraine crisis has revealed that the U.S. can’t shed its “big brother” image on the world stage.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Don’t Forget About the Ukrainians
Rather than anxiously await news alerts, turn your attention to these thoughtful, big-picture views of Ukraine and the conflict.
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Ali Atmaca / Anadolu Agency / Getty Photos: Ukrainians Prepare for War
Images from the city of Kyiv and several villages over the past several weeks, where people are readying themselves for the worst
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Chris McGrath / Getty It’s Not ‘The’ Ukraine
The country is much more than a sphere of influence.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Two Lingering Questions About the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
As Russia deploys more military resources near the Ukrainian border, the West’s diplomacy keeps failing.
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Associated Press Why the West’s Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing
American and European leaders’ profound lack of imagination has brought the world to the brink of war.
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Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni Ukraine’s Civilian Soldiers
For many Ukrainians, war with Russia is not a possibility, but an ever-present reality.
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Armin Weigel / Picture Alliance / Getty How Much Does Ukraine Really Matter to the U.S.?
Plus: A claim that the 1990s was the last true decade
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The Atlantic Vladimir Putin Is a Product of Modernity
Why the tension in Ukraine may feel deceptively regressive
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Russian Defense Ministry Press Service / AP The Sliding-Doors Approach to the Russia Crisis
Putin knows that the West will not fight for Ukraine because it is not a NATO ally, so traditional military deterrence will not work.
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Adam Maida / The Atlantic ; Mikhail Svetlov … The Reason Putin Would Risk War
He is threatening to invade Ukraine because he wants democracy to fail—and not just in that country.
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: Vladimir Putin Is Testing U.S. Foreign Policy
And scrambling domestic politics too.
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Getty; The Atlantic The One Ukraine Option That the Public Won’t Abide
Vladimir Putin’s potential invasion has exposed a rare point of agreement between Democrats and Republicans.
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NBC War Anxieties Loomed Over SNL
Last night’s episode addressed Ukraine and Russia, but the result was less insightful political satire than proof that the show’s writers read the internet.
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Russian Defence Ministry / Anadolu Agency / Getty; … Fox News Abandons the GOP on Russia
Russia-Ukraine is becoming a trial of strength between different parts of the conservative universe.
