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Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia

  • Written by Ronald Suny, Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
imageOn Feb. 24, Russian tanks moving into Ukraine. Sergei Malgavko\TASS via Getty Images)

As fighting rages across Ukraine, two versions of reality that underlie the conflict stare across a deep divide, neither conceding any truth to the other.

The more widespread and familiar view in the West, particularly in the United States, is that Russia is and...

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