no one single example of major power, great power, winning a war against a rising nation and a rising state. So none. And we didn't know whether the Russian aggression against Ukraine would be different or not by late March at least. I saw that it would probably not be different and that gave me some foundations again, moral historical in terms of standards of my profession to write that book. One more question for you about process before we get into the book itself. How do you feel that your identity and background as a Ukrainian impacted your writing of this book and impacted your objectivity of the war itself? I was thinking about that more than once, but this is the case where I think me coming from Ukraine, really an asset because I certainly now understand many things that anyone who didn't grow up there, didn't go to school there, probably it would be difficult for people to grasp that. I am clearly on the side of Ukraine, but I don't think about my position as being a partisan (8/40)
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