War and Peace in Ukraine

On February 17, 2023, David Remnick of the New Yorker podcast interviewed Steven Kotkin, history professor at Stanford, and biographer of Joseph Stalin.

Kotkin said, "Let's think of a house with ten rooms, and let's say I barge in and take two of those rooms. I wreck those two rooms, and I also wreck your other eight rooms. You try to evict me, but I'm still there wrecking your entire house.

"You need your house. That's where you live. You don't have another house. Me, I've got another house, and my house has a thousand rooms. So, if I wreck your house, are you winning, or am I winning?"

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