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Ukraine\u2019s victory or defeat will set a precedent for whether international law still retains value \u2013 <strong>or whether force becomes the only argument<\/strong> in international relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\"><strong>Slyvchuk<\/strong> also stresses that territorial concessions do not end aggression. Historically, every concession to an aggressor has postponed the next attack rather than prevented it. A so-called <strong>\u201cterritorial compromise\u201d would not resolve the problem<\/strong> of a Russia that has not abandoned its goal of controlling Ukraine entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">The op-ed frames Russia\u2019s invasion as <strong>imperial revanchism<\/strong>, not a border dispute. <strong>Slyvchuk<\/strong> points to Vladimir Putin\u2019s July 2021 article denying Ukraine\u2019s right to exist as a separate state as evidence that Moscow\u2019s war is rooted in its refusal to accept Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty. Russia, he notes, has never learned to coexist with its neighbors on terms of cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">Finally, <strong>Slyvchuk<\/strong> emphasizes that Ukraine\u2019s independence in 1991 was not a new beginning, but a <strong>continuation of the country\u2019s statehood traditio<\/strong>n. 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