'This is our country': Putin's narratives hide the truth about Ukraine's superpower
Russian President Vladimir Putin is a master crafter of narratives, and the world is caught in the web. “Ukraine invaded” or “Troops enter Ukraine,” read the headlines on many places Tuesday. But it is a trick of the eye, a deft move by a deceiver: The Ukraine that Putin invaded Monday night is territory Moscow has influenced or controlled since the 2014 revolution. So far, no Ukrainian-held territory has been invaded.
But there has been a sea change, something that shook even Ukrainians: In his Monday speech, Putin made a wild case to erase the history of Ukraine as an independent country.
"From the very first steps (the Ukrainians) began to build their statehood on the denial of everything that unites us,” he said, sounding like a sultan trying to imprison an unwilling wife or J.R.R. Tolkien’s Smeagol going for the ring. “They tried to distort the consciousness, the historical memory of millions of people, entire generations living in Ukraine."
Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity
We could examine history and show that Ukraine is its own nation, much like the Irish, despite centuries of oppression. But to argue that point would be to fall into Putin’s narrative web. What he is after is erasing Ukraine not because of historical quibbles but because of what several friends here say is Ukraine’s superpower: its 2014 Revolution of Dignity, also called Maidan (“public square"
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