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Ukraine is not Russia. Too many Ukrainians have tasted too much freedom for too long.

— Timothy D. Snyder

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Ukraine is not a theater for the historical propaganda of others or a puzzle from which pieces can be removed. It is a major European country whose citizens have important cultural and economic ties with both the European Union and Russia.

Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century.

On Tyranny (2017)

What does it mean when the wolf cries wolf? Most obviously, propagandists in Moscow and Kiev take us for fools—which by many indications is quite justified.

Since late November [2013], millions of Ukrainians have campaigned for a pro-European course, only to find themselves branded extremists, foreign agents and criminals.

The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions...

On Tyranny (2017)

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