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It was described as a book about Putin, Zelensky, and the path to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which the author claimed required going back centuries to understand. The book also discussed Putin's isolation and his reliance on historical myths.
He's out with a new book titled War and Punishment, Putin, Zelensky and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.
— Episode: Morning Joe 7/25/23
Episode: Morning Joe 7/25/23
It was described as a book about Putin, Zelensky, and the path to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which the author claimed required going back centuries to understand. The book also discussed Putin's isolation and his reliance on historical myths.
He's out with a new book titled War and Punishment, Putin, Zelensky and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.
Yeah, I go back to, I would say, three centuries ago.
Because, you know, this this war Putin is trying to justify this war because of very recent history. And Russia is poisoned with historical myths. And I think that we need my mission was to debunk all those historical myths created by Russian propaganda, because most of Russian historians, unfortunately, were propagandists for all those years. And unfortunately, historians in the West sometimes followed that imperialist historical narrative.
Russians and Ukrainians are the same people. Ukrainian language is not the real language. But as Putin believes, it's like wrong Russian.
Yes, exactly. The book is War and Punishment. Putin's Zelensky and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.
