The Aggression Against Ukraine. Comments from a Historian’s Perspective
Journal: Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea
Year: 2014

The eruption of armed conflict between Moscow and Kiev and the tension between Russia and the West has caused perplexity amongst politicians and commentators, some of whom took refuge in historical analogies. In Germany, state representatives were constantly dreading a "division of Europe" or a "new Cold War", the United States accused Moscow of 19 th century-style "great power politics", while Germany's post-communists as well as two former chancellors expressed their understanding for Moscow's