Ukrainian President Zelensky Challenges Vladimir Putin To Sit Down For Talk

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BYPETER POMERANTSEV

FEBRUARY 25, 2022 12:28 PM EST

Pomerantsev is the author ofThis is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality. He is a Senior Fellow at SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University.

Vladimir Putin is an old man scared of death trying to turn back time.Ukraineand Ukrainians are as his blood sacrifice. Hisinvasionof their country is his attempt to forestall his personal, inevitable demise.

As we grow older, death becomes harder to ignore. As it approaches it’s natural to want to reverse time. We become nostalgic, a little bitter about the present. As death closes in we commit silly acts to prove we are still young. We try, a little comically, to thumb our nose against the inevitable. Dodge…