Russian tanks entering Ukraine with Ukrainian civilians seeking shelter.

Russian Revisionism and the Lie of Provocation

There exists in the muddled discourse surrounding Russia’s brutal war against Ukraine a certain insidious argument that bears more than a passing resemblance to a particular strain of historical revisionism. This argument, ostensibly put forward by those seeking “context” or “nuance,” suggests that Russia was not the aggressor in this conflict but rather a wounded […]