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The 70-year nightmare materializes: a madman with nukes

The result is shaking up the architecture of power and anti-conquest norms that have for the most part kept the peace in Europe since the Second World War despite the presence of weapons of mass destruction.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has brandished the nuclear sword before in relation to the 2014 annexation of Crimea, is doing what has been unthinkable for 70 years, writes Les Whittington. UN photograph by Mark Garten
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