The Rain in Spain Falls Harder on Ukraine: Rethinking the Spanish Civil War Analogy
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In 2023, the NATO Baltic Defense College in Tartu, Estonia devoted its entire annual conference to the Interwar Period (1919 to 1939), a theme repeated at subsequent conferences sponsored by national militaries and academic societies throughout the United States and Europe. Western scholars and foreign policy analysts, provoked by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, seem persuaded that we are living at the close of another interwar era — one in which an egotistical European power shatters a decades-long continental truce, established and upheld by an international rules-based order, by invading a smaller neighbor ostensibly to defend threatened national minorities. A The post The Rain in Spain Falls Harder on Ukraine: Rethinking the Spanish Civil War Analogy appeared first on War on the Rocks.