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Ayn Rand in Ukrainian Crimea

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Ayn Rand's 1964 essay collection The Virtue of Selfishness helps illuminate the moral underpinnings of the geopolitical tensions surrounding Ukraine today .

Rand: A nation that violates the rights of its own citizens cannot claim any rights whatsoever.

The invasion of an enslaved country is morally justified only when conquerors establish a free social system, Rand says.

Putin 's " Special Military Operation " may be the final manifestation of Ivan Vovchuk's 1968 observation: "Bolshevism started building its empire by starting war against Ukraine " Russia may find itself a fractured region of freedom-hungry individual republics as a result of its immoral invasion of Ukraine .

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76

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76

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16

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informal

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English

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66

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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