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- Title
A TSAR WITHOUT A THRONE? THE POLITICS OF RUSSIA'S AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE.
- Authors
Minkkinen, Petri
- Abstract
This article discusses a major aspect of the global crisis: the illegal war of aggression by President Vladimir Putin's Russia against Ukraine, which was launched in 2014 and broadened into a full scale invasion on 24 February 2022. The latter is another significant year because the Russian Civil War ended in 1922 and Putin's aggression of 2022, besides being an international war between two sovereign states, is also a full scale civil war between two east-Slavic peoples, the Russians and the Ukrainians, with the third east-Slavic people, the Belarusians, hesitating somewhere in between. Though a European war, even if Russia is also an Asian country after its eastern expansion, which began during the reign of Ivan the Terrible in 16th century AD, it has worldwide consequences and deepens the divisions of the emerging world order. This article focuses on two main themes: the reasons for the invasion and its possible consequences, a predicted collapse of Russia and the consequent dethronement of President-Tsar Putin, together with another predicted outcome, that the Ukrainian forces win and defeat the Russian aggressor. Moreover, besides some discussion of the third party relations in relation to this war, I include some comments on Immanuel Wallerstein's 1990s forecast for 1990-2015.
- Subjects
THRONES; RUSSIAN invasion of Ukraine, 2022-; PUTIN, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-; RUSSIAN Revolution, 1917-1921; UKRAINIANS
- Publication
Revista de Historia Actual, 2022, Issue 20/21, p45
- ISSN
1697-3305
- Publication type
Article