There are moments in history when the language of treaties and borders suddenly reveals its fragility—when the promises states make to one another are tested not on paper but in the lives of real people. Ukraine’s story over the past decade is one of those moments. It forces us to ask what recognition truly means, what sovereignty is worth, and how quickly the foundations of international order can be shaken when a powerful state decides that its neighbor’s independence is a mistake. In this episode, we step into that tension. We trace how Russia once affirmed Ukraine’s sovereignty, how it later tried to revoke it, and what this reversal tells us about power, identity, and the struggle for political self‑determination in our own time.

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"Dare to use your own reason" - Immanuel Kant