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What Ukraine means

The claim by such distinguished scholars of world politics as Henry Kissinger and ¬Zbigniew Brzezinski—that Russia without Ukraine can be neither a great power nor the center of an empire—is both true and insufficient. Russia without Ukraine is also a Russia that must confront the historical fiction that has shaped, and warped, its national self-concept and self-image for centuries. [1]