While news media attempt to keep readers abreast of events as they occur, historians attempt to put events in a larger context: history. So, Ukraine is not without its own history, most of which is unknown to most Americans, excepting Anne Applebaum, the prolific author from Washington, D.C. Most recently, she has illuminated readers on modern history, modern history of the 20th century. Mostly, she has focused on Russya, and by extension, on Ukraine. She writes, writes, and writes some more.
The Mayor of Tahoma is a follower of Ms. Applebaum, and is justly proud she is an American historian. I would like to recommend some of her most recent articles on events in Ukraine, all in The Atlantic magazine:
The U.S. is Naive About Russia. Ukraine cannot Afford to Be. 1/3/22
The Reason Putin Would Risk War-2/3/22
Why the West's Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing -2/13/22
There Are No Chamberlains in This Story-2/21/22
By reading these points of history, as she explains, one can better understand what is happening now in Ukraine. Readers will then be able to form more informed opinions about the geopolitical situation that America confronts, along with a pandemic, and not the least, economics of inflation at home.
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