{"id":1852461,"date":"2023-02-19T05:06:06","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T10:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1852461"},"modified":"2023-02-19T05:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T10:12:33","slug":"the-war-in-ukraine-today-and-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-war-in-ukraine-today-and-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"The War in Ukraine Today and Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-war-in-ukraine-today-and-yesterday%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1852461&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The history of what is now Ukraine shows that it was divided between Russia and Poland. One year after the country&#8217;s struggle for survival against Russia&#8217;s aggression, it finds Poland among its strongest supporters. While Turkey pretends to be a mediator and tilts towards its historic enemy Russia. Geopolitics has the power to confuse history.<\/p>\n<p>Geopolitics can be confused by history. Leaders latch onto their own versions of history to marshal in support of their aims\u2014whether self-defense, conquest, or opportunism\u2014although not every version withstands evidentiary scrutiny equally. Comparing competing histories gives you a better understanding of both the stakes and the limits of your power.<\/p>\n<p>Consider Ukraine&#8217;s incorporation to the Russian Empire. It is often dated back to 1654. Is there a Ukrainian state, or was it a Cossack military unit on a portion of the territory that now makes up Ukraine? Hetman Bohdan Khamelnytsky, the Cossack leader and state, accepted Russia&#8217;s legalization of Moscow&#8217;s annexes. Or did he only seek to form a temporary military alliance with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against which the Cossacks were fighting?<\/p>\n<p>These questions are often answered by nationalism, which is projected onto an era before modern countries existed.<\/p>\n<p>We know for certain that the 1654 agreement required the Hetman and other high-ranking officials and clergy to swear an oath to the tsar and that this sparked a larger war between Russia and Poland over these coveted lands. Multiyear hostilities ended in treaties whereby Poland ceded to Russia its claims to the Cossack Hetmanate, the eastern lands across the Dnipro River, and the mother city of\u00a0Kyiv. Eastern Ukraine was under Russian rule while Western Ukraine developed under Polish control.<\/p>\n<p>To erase what he deemed the centuries of Ukrainian divergence under Russian influence, the president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, advised Ukraine&#8217;s president Volodymyr Zelensky to obtain Russia&#8217;s capitulation in the very location\u2014Pereyaslav\u2014where the Cossack Hetman had signed the 1654 agreement with representatives of the Russian tsar. Russian president Vladimir Putin, for his part, included Zaporizhzhia\u2014the homeland of the Cossack Hetman which Duda regretted losing out on\u2014among the four regions of Ukraine that he declared eternally Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>We should also mention that on the 300th anniversary for Pereyaslav&#8217;s death, 1954, Nikita Khrushchev unilaterally transferred Crimea to the Soviet Ukraine from the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Many people believed that he was trying his best to heal his injuries as the ex-commander of the Communist party in Kyiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically, what is now Ukraine was divided between Russia, Poland, and the Ottoman Empire. One year into the country\u2019s fight for its existence against Russia\u2019s aggression, it finds Poland among its staunchest supporters, while Turkey, pretending to a position of mediator, tilts toward its own historic enemy of Russia. Geopolitics can confound history.<br \/>\nThe post The War in Ukraine Today and Yesterday appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1734,"featured_media":1852464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[11211,6991,6696],"class_list":["post-1852461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-yesterday","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1852461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1852464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1852461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1852461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1852461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}