The plan came dramatically unstuck in Bucha, a pleasant commuter town 15 miles from the Ukrainian capital. A group of volunteers took to the barricades... Similar acts of grassroots resistance took place in other Ukrainian towns and cities in response to Russia's sweeping invasion. All Ukraine was seized with a spirit of initiative, he writes... This spontaneous behaviour was in striking contrast to the passive Russians, who waited for orders.
He considers Columbus's discovery of America in 1492, European Romanticism and the invention of the modern state in the 19th century.
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