![One year in, there has been unexpected implications for the war in Ukraine, including effects on Russia and NATO.](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/putin-russia-ukraine-war-nato-military-us-aid-europe-02242023-1.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
Over the past year, the implications of the war in Ukraine have been the subject of much analysis and debate. It has been a war between two armed forces, but also between two diametrically opposed systems of values. It has been an economic war and a war of competing narratives. But above all, it has been a war of contradictions.