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Ukraine's Survival is More Important Than You Think

Ukraine’s fall is unthinkable because it means my children will be fighting the next global war in their lifetimes

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Wes O'Donnell
Dec 26, 2025
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I remember exactly when Ukraine stopped being just “another headline” to me. It was early 2016, and I was watching the excellent field dispatches of then-Vice journalist Simon Ostrovsky and his series called “Russian Roulette.”

It is absolutely worth a watch, even today, because this is the playbook that Putin w…

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