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Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Roundtable
Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Roundtable
Firemen extinguish a fire inside a residential building that was hit by a missile on February 25, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Pierre Crom/Getty Images)
Niall Ferguson, Walter Russell Mead and Francis Fukuyama weigh in.
By Bari Weiss
03.03.22 — International
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Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Roundtable

As I write this, Russia’s war against Ukraine is entering its second week. Air raid sirens are ringing out over the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Russian troops are laying siege to the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv. The southern city of Kherson has fallen. Nearly a million Ukrainians have fled their homes.

Why did Putin invade Ukraine at this mome…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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