Here in Europe, in the 21st Century, unfolds a World War One-style artillery war that has killed thousands and lays to waste vast parts of Ukraine. Whereas World War One was preceded by a decades-long buildup. One year on, we are still asking why Vladimir Putin made a grab for Kyiv. To think that just a year ago, we were marking 30 years since the breakup of the Soviet Union. What is left of a shared past? What can that past and this present teach us all about our future?
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