title: War in Ukraine, Round 1
abstract: Abstract Chapter 5 runs from 2014 to 2016 and in one narrative sweep links Russia’s annexation of Crimea and invasion of the Donbas (eastern Ukraine) to its 2015 incursion into Syria and 2016 meddling in the US election, a trajectory of mounting tension between Russia and Ukraine, on the one hand, and between Russia and the United States, on the other. Chapter 5 emphasizes the first round of war between Russia and Ukraine as a nested set of conflicts: Russia-Ukraine, Russia-Europe, Russia-United