His latest for The Atlantic magazine is of a piece with the rest of his oeuvre—yet given the continuing popularity of the arguments he puts forth, to say nothing of the stakes involved, perhaps some attention is due. And, importantly, the land, while under Ukrainian sovereignty for only the past thirty years, was historically Russian and was only folded into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic thanks to the machinations Vladimir Lenin (for more on this, see: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Russian Question At The End of the Twentieth Century, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1995). The return of Donbas to Russia is not – let me repeat – not the equivalent, no matter how many times Kagan and the gang say so – of Russia rolling into Warsaw and planting the Russian tricolor atop the Sejm.
Author: James Carden
Published at: 2025-05-07 21:50:15
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