What’s going on in Ukraine?

In recent months, the news has been dominated by the massing of 100,000 Russian troops on Ukraine’s border and broad discussions about the potential for war, not just between Ukraine and Russia, but between global powers. The United States, along with several NATO allies, have offered direct support to Ukraine in the form of both funds and military equipment, while simultaneously placing diplomatic pressure on Moscow in an attempt to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from following through with an invasion.

Today’s simmering tensions on the Ukraine border have roots that reach back decades, and in some ways, today’s potential for conflict could be seen as a reverberating effect of the fall of the Soviet Union at the close of the Cold War.

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