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Ukraine and the lessons of ‘bloc politics’
The major powers need to accept that attempts at domination over others will lead to perpetual instability and bloodshed. JOHN WIGHT examines the historical record
DEVASTATION: A destroyed apartment house after Russian shelling in a residential area of Chuhuiv, Kharkiv region, Ukraine

“SO FOUL a sky clears not without a storm” – William Shakespeare.

The conflict in Ukraine marks a major inflection point in human affairs, developing as it has into a proxy conflict between a resurgent Russia and a Washington-led Western ideological bloc whose global hegemony is being challenged as never before.

When it comes to the situation on the ground, Russia’s military campaign is currently focused on taking control of the entire Donbass, made up of the Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts. 

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