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Quote:According to another article penned by Freeland, the war in Ukraine is entirely the fault of Vladimir Putin, and can be explained solely in terms of ‘Russian aggression’. This aggression in turn derives from Putin’s determination to suppress opposition at home by any means. Freeland writes:

Mr. Putin has already muzzled Russia’s once boisterous free press, exiled and imprisoned opposition leaders and assumed direct control of the mass media. … This [the war in Ukraine] is not a civil war … this conflict started with the Ukrainian people’s revolt against authoritarianism and in favor of the liberal rights and responsibilities Ukrainians call European values. This is partly a fight of freedom of speech against censorship. Ukrainians decided to build a democracy at home and to make a trade deal with Europe; Russia invaded.

The war in Ukraine, says Freeland, ‘is a fight for democratic values, human rights, multicultural spheres.’ ‘It is an entirely good thing that Ukraine’s new leaders are defining their national identity as inherently democratic and freedom-loving’, she writes elsewhere. Putin, however, ‘need[s] … to show that a democratic Ukraine living under the rule of law can’t work’, Freeland claims. This explains the war in Donbass. ‘Russia wants to snuff out democracy’, she says.