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The Ukrainian Gordian Knot

The Ukrainian Gordian Knot
A priest stands next to a coffin containing the body of slain Ukrainian serviceman Sergiy Radyuk during the service in St. Michael's Golden-Domed cathedral in Kyiv on Sept. 25, 2023, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Sergei Supinsky/AFP/Getty Images
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Most Americans understandably favor the Ukrainian resistance against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s naked 2022 aggression.

Victor Davis Hanson
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”
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