You’re reading an excerpt from the WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked all of Europe. Countries once stuck in the Soviet orbit fumed over the Kremlin’s neo-imperialism. Major powers in Western Europe reckoned with their lack of preparedness for President Vladimir Putin’s land war of choice. But in a tiny island in the eastern Mediterranean, the invasion unleashed a more complicated set of feelings and outcomes. “The memories came back,” Constantinos Kombos, the foreign minister of Cyprus, told me, gesturing to his own nation’s history 50 years ago when Turkey launched an invasion and occupation of Cypriot territory that remains to this day. “We are a victim of invasion and aggression, too.” The 1974 Turkish intervention followed a period of political turbulence and communal strife in the former British colony, which led to Turkey justifying its move on the basis of …