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Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi has recalled that Russia’s leadership once publicly supported NATO’s ...
Russia has pursued its imperial ambitions through force for centuries, no matter who was in charge. Until and unless Russia and its people confront their history, the cycle of violence will continue .
Benton: Europeans, although they were often tremendously violent in their campaigns of conquest, were at first not inventing new modes of imperial expansion. They were fitting into what were already ...
Like Ukraine, the former Soviet states of Central Asia could soon face Russian incursions. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a war of imperial conquest, an attempt by the Kremlin to drag ...
After more than two years of death and destruction, neither side in the war in Ukraine appears close to victory: Russia will not achieve its imperial conquest of Ukraine, and Ukraine will most ...
In a new book, Yale historian Lauren Benton explores the rampant — and seemingly incessant — small wars that shaped imperial power between 1400 and 1900. ... She finds that European empires ...