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That the 20th century was an age of tyrants who were all the more murderous for being ideologically driven hardly needs to be said.
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Wars, history shows, rarely end before the net costs to each of the warring parties of continuing the hostilities manifestly exceed those they can expect to bear by settling. Unfortunately, that condition still seems far from being met in Ukraine.
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As the Russian army grinds ahead in its efforts to make a desert and call it peace, the invasion of Ukraine has proven to be anything but the smoothly executed “special operation” Vladimir Putin announced three weeks ago.
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In September 1968, just weeks after Soviet tanks had crushed the Prague Spring, Dean Rusk, the secretary of state in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, reported to cabinet that the invasion had given NATO “a new lease of life”.
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It was all too predictable: Russia’s tanks had scarcely begun to roll into Ukraine before claims appeared in the Twittersphere that the invasion was the West’s own fault.
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Sixty years ago, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon – yet after staring into the abyss, an essentially stable global order was restored. Today, as Vladimir Putin moves to crush Ukrainian independence, the prospects for a return to global order are far dimmer, imposing choices the West is poorly placed to face.
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