"Whenever I come to Ukraine, I find words that have lost their essence elsewhere swell again with meaning. The fight for freedom is not a pretentious slogan here, but just what you do every day. Sovereignty is not a slippery abstraction, but the difference between deciding your own fate or having it decreed in Moscow."
"It's also in Ukraine that one realises that freedom and sovereignty exist in a collaborative relationship with others. Ukraine is now defending its neighbours' freedom from an advancing Russia. Kyiv's resistance is benefiting Taiwan's freedom, too."
"Many of the concepts that organise our political imagination have turned out to be feeble when it comes to enabling action against Russia's attack on the international rules-based order. Indeed, that phrase is increasingly only used with irony marks attached."
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