Ukraine and the West: as long as it takes

Abstract

Thus, there are varied and ambivalent conjunctures guiding the conflict. The year 2022, the first episode, showed Putin's annexationist interests the material impossibility of eradicating Ukraine and its increasingly robust national identity. The early abandonment to take Kiev, the naval defeats in the Black Sea and the heroic liberation of the Kharkov Oblast were, among other happy examples, a sign that Ukrainians were prepared to defend their homeland, even against the most brutal of contemporary empires.

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