The Ukraine war itself, more than a year later, drags on with no end in sight. Instead, it actually ‘looked for new missions and new justification for its continued existence in the post-Cold War world’ (p.135). A regional conflict that Nuland likened to the Second World War, it might easily have been halted early on. All this was destined to awaken Russian memories of the Second World War. The second edition of War in Ukraine is available from O/R Books.