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Totally agree. It's a way to interrogate why the world is both as great and as fucked as it is today. We have a narrative that says "Putin is a crazy person," precisely because no one has bothered to ask the question, "Why might Putin want to invade Ukraine?" which would require working backward to at least the time of Peter the Great.I've long thought that history ought to be taught backwards, from current events clear back to the magna carta.