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But theres something more fundamental. ukraine as a successful experiment invalidates putins view of managed democracy. basically, this idea that he could -- that everything is under centralized control, and with limited curtailed freedoms for the population. if ukraine is able to be successful, if ukraine is prosperous, and its made some headway, significant headway since 2014, which is why we see ourselves in this situation right now. with a major escalation looming in the next couple weeks an...

The first time. hes also the author of "here, right matters, an american story. why is ukraine so important to putin." thats my question, colonel vindman. i want to know why is there such a fascination on the part of vladimir putin with ukraine. >> well, theres many different reasons. the first one is ukraine is central to russias conception of itself as a great power. it believes ukraine is its right by history, and only as a freak of history with the collapse of the soviet union did the worst ...