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Sovfoto / Universal Images Group / Getty Putin Doesn’t Realize How Much Warfare Has Changed
The Russian president’s obsession with World War II is hindering his invasion of Ukraine.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Vladimir Putin Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap
Reality doesn’t conform to the theory of the rational, calculating despot who can play the long game.
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Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Putin’s Nuclear Threats Are a Wake-Up Call for the World
The Russian leader’s actions have opened our eyes to how dependent we all are on the whims of one man and his nuclear arsenal.
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Andy Kropa / Redux The U.S. Subsidy That Empowers Putin
Ending America’s foolish subsidies for ethanol could aid Ukraine.
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Takuro Yabe / Pool / AFP; Getty Putin Needs an Off-Ramp
The question for world leaders is how to ensure the Russian president is defeated while nevertheless providing him with a route out of the crisis.
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Olivier Matthys / AP Putin’s Strategic Error
The Russian leader is creating the very Western alliance he feared.
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Oliver Munday / The Atlantic Of Course Putin Is Being Canceled
And that’s a good thing.
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Sergei Guneyev / Getty; The Atlantic I Was Wrong About Putin
When U.S. intelligence started saying that Russia would invade Ukraine, I didn’t believe it.
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Moises Saman / Magnum What a Decade-Old Conflict Tells Us About Putin
One can trace a straight line from the overthrow of Libya’s dictator Muammar Gaddafi to today’s devastating war in Ukraine.
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The Atlantic ; Kay Nietfeld/Picture Alliance/Getty What’s Behind Putin’s Dirty, Violent Speeches
Although seemingly spontaneous, the Russian president’s deployment of vulgar language has almost always been intentional and strategic.
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Stefani Reynolds / Getty Romney Was Right About Putin
A conversation with the Republican senator about Russia’s threat to the world, the members of the GOP who praise Putin, and how this conflict ends
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Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Who is Vladimir Putin’s Revisionist History For?
Nationalist leaders often weaponize the past to justify their present aims. But the Russian president’s narrative appears to be directed at an audience of one.
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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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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 Vladimir Putin Is a Product of Modernity
Why the tension in Ukraine may feel deceptively regressive
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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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Sergei Savostyanov / TASS / Getty Putin Is Taking a Huge Gamble
His decision to assemble an invasion force along Russia’s border with Ukraine suggests that we are about to enter a dangerous new phase of international relations.
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Courtesy of Ural Biennial Vladimir Putin’s Waning Tolerance for Art
A recent art exhibition in Russia made no mention of the current state of the country—saying more about Putin’s rule than any one exhibit could.
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Sasha Mordovets / Getty How Putin Got Into America’s Mind
He learned the art of destabilizing his opponents from the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police.
