Guest Column: One Morning in Georgetown Before the Invasion of Ukraine  

Published on February 10, 2026
By David Tafuri     Early one morning — just a few days before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022 — my phone rang as I lay asleep in bed. I answered and heard the voice of […]
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