La guerra ruso-ucraniana

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world, but according to expert Serhii Plokhy, this conflict had begun eight years earlier, when the Russian armed forces took over the Crimean Parliament. In The Russian-Ukrainian War, a reference work to understand the largest European military conflict since the Second World War, the author analyzes the actions undertaken by Russian elites who consider themselves heirs and guardians of the expansionist tradition of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. . Ukraine, which here stands as a fundamental territory for Russia's idea of itself, also constitutes today the dividing line between authoritarianism and democracy, between the liberal alliance of Europeans and Americans, and that led by Russia and China. If the fall of the Berlin Wall could be seen as the "end of history", the conflict in Ukraine marks its return, with all the horrors and violence that it entails, and confronts us with the inescapable questions it raises: should we submit to the law of the strongest for fear of widespread conflict? What price are we willing to pay to defend our own freedom? Are there still values and rights worth fighting for? Not only the present of the conflict depends on the answers given, but also the future of humanity.