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Natopolitanism: The Atlantic Alliance Since the Cold War
Edited by Grey Anderson, Verso, £15.99
THINGS are often not what they seem to be. Or what we are told they are.
This verity holds especially true when it comes to wars of empire. The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine is no exception. In fact, it can be quite reasonably argued that this conflict is one of the most misrepresented conflicts in the history of modern war.
That history describes Washington’s plans to install a government in Ukraine open to assimilation into Washington’s realm via Nato. The dismissal of this history makes the description of this war as some kind of war of liberation easier, but still quite an incredible stretch of the facts.
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