Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Full-scale war in Europe was meant to be a thing we no longer had to fear. So what can we make of the Russia-Ukraine War: must we question our assumptions about 21st century conflict, or is it an atavistic brawl from the past? Is it, as Vladimir Putin claims, part of a global war against Western hegemony, or an expression of 19th century geopolitical thinking?
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