'Like many western leaders, he sees the path toward xenophobia and war as the way to control his own people with fear. Yet it seems that now both Russians and Ukrainians are starting to lose their fear, and beginning to think of standing up to empire.'
As a geographer who has studied and taught about interethnic conflict around the world, and as a U.S. citizen withThese two maps show how Putin got it wrong, and miscalculated in launching his war against Ukraine. Putin claims that two of his war aims are the"denazification" of Ukraine, and the protection of the Russian-speaking population from far-right Ukrainian ultranationalists.
Putin portrayed Ukrainian fascists as a threat to the Russian-speaking population in the east and south , and he annexed Crimea and armed Russian separatists in the far-east Donbass region. Ukrainian nationalists are strongest in the far-west Ukrainian-speaking region around Lviv , which was part of interwar Poland. Many Ukrainians in the central region speak a mixture of Ukrainian and Russian .
But here's the thing: how can Putin convince Russian-speakers to help topple a president who they voted for in larger numbers than Ukrainian-speakers did, over a candidate backed by voters in the most Ukrainian nationalist region? How does that make any sense as a way to fight Nazis? Perhaps because Zelensky doesn't adequately play the role of bogeyman, Putin has to topple him.
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