To Kallas, though, the historical context is that this has been Russian behavior for more than a century, never truly changing from 1919 to 1940 to 2014 and to 2022 and beyond: Russia takes what it can get and then pushes for more. “That is the lesson we learned from history, and that is the lesson for Ukrainians as well: that they just can’t stop, otherwise they’re going to lose territory,” she told me. “They have already lost people, but they’re going to lose more if they give in to Russia. It’s never going to stop.”
