The most profound miscalculation Putin made
Though he may escalate the war, the Russian leader is far from the military victory he sought
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Yaroslav Hrytsak
Ukraine is once again at the centre of a potentially global conflict. World War I, as the historian Dominic Lieven put it, "turned on the fate of Ukraine".
World War II, according to the legendary journalist Edgar Snow, was "first of all a Ukrainian war". Now the threat of a World War III hinges on what could happen in Ukraine.
