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Ukraine is not a woke vs. anti-woke war
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Ukraine is not a woke vs. anti-woke war

A persisting line of embarrassing commentary tells us little about the war in Ukraine, but a lot about Americans.

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Carl Beijer
Mar 11, 2022
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Stairway outside of an abandoned building in Kharkiv. Personal photo.

US commentary on international affairs has always been notoriously parochial, and nothing has made this clearer than the current war in Ukraine. Instead of trying to understand it on its own terms, much of the analysis we’ve seen so far just tries to extrapolate from our familiar narra…

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