title: Chapter 2: The Ukraine War as a Regional Confrontation
abstract: To this day, some commentary, such as Elon Musk's "peace plan", suggests that Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine can be viewed as a local phenomenon. But the assumption that it is simply a dispute between two ex-Soviet republics over manageable territory misses the character of this confrontation in origin and extent. Rather, the invasion is the culmination of a long-simmering regional confrontation with global implications. The search for adequate responses by politics and society must 
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