Source: Racket News
by Matt Taibbi & Racket staff
“There’s no question who invaded whom. Hostilities began in February, 2022 with an angry speech by Vladimir Putin and bombs that landed minutes later in Ukraine. Little discussion of the ‘why’ of the war took place in the West, however. Phrases like ‘unprovoked aggression’ became almost mandatory in Western coverage. Politico interviewed a range of experts and concluded that what Putin wanted was ‘a revanchist imperialist remaking of the globe to take control of the entire former Soviet space.’ This diagnosis of Putin’s invasion as part of a Hitlerian quest for Lebensraum and a broader return to national glory might have merit, but it was also conspicuously uncontested.” (03/07/25)