The Atlantic | February 21st, 2022
His partition of Ukraine is an attack on global peace.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a long speech full of heavy sighs and dark grievances, made clear today that he has chosen war. He went to war against Ukraine in 2014; now he has declared war against the international order of the past 30 years.
Read the article by Tom Nichols, a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of its newsletter Peacefield here.