<p>As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship of leading imperial Russia scholar and UCR Professor Georg Michels takes on renewed relevance. Michels, a Harvard-trained scholar in Early Modern Russian and Ukrainian History, is currently working on a new book project about Ukrainians' relations with Ottomans, Poles, and Russians during the 17th century, with an interest in the Ottoman Empire's support of Ukrainian resistance against Russian military invasion and occupation.</p>