Do the Russians have war in their blood?

In Summary

• The Russians are deluded, but it’s a delusion that has struck almost all the former European colonial powers after they lost their empires.
• You might call it ‘post-imperial muscle memory’, like the phantom sensation that an amputated leg is still there even after it’s gone.

01 April 2022 - 04:00

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