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A Ukrainian flag flies in front of a fire following a mass Russian attack on the capital in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 4, 2025.
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Ukrainian exceptionalism

by Mark Cary

Americans like to believe they are exceptional — a pioneer nation born in revolution, animated by liberty, individual freedom, and committed to the democratic separation of powers. In the spring of 2022, at a refugee camp on the Polish-Ukrainian border, I began to suspect that this belief, while powerful, may no longer describe us as accurately as we assume. I was at the Medyka crossing for only two weeks, but the experience changed me forever. Decades earlier, I had been a Soviet Studies majo

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