All wars are like car accidents, and all car accidents have causes. The trouble arises when conflicting testimonies produce different explanations of the cause. We see this in the Russo-Ukraine War.
The conventional view of how the war started and who is responsible is the one put forward by the U.S. and its NATO allies at the war’s outset. It is still dominant today, but it is being challenged by alternative views, one of them coming from the American president. The Battle of the Narratives has been joined.
The conventional narrative holds that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine constitutes a grave act of injustice, amounting to a clear case of “unprovoked” aggression. War guilt rests solely on the shoulders of one person: Russian President Vladimir Putin. Putin’s past words and deeds show that he had long planned for war and sees himself as a modern-day Peter the Great, reclaiming territories he views as historically Russian.
Russia, goes this version, has unlawfully denied Ukraine its U.N. Charter rights to live in peace. Its behavior is an affront to the norms of world order, and justice requires armed opposition to thwart its designs.
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