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I agree with nfmisso on this issue.
The hub was assembled wrong at some point.
Visibly, with the 8s cassette shown, there should be only 3.5mm or so between the outer (i.e. driveside) face of the smallest cog and the inner (i.e. non-driveside) face of the dropout. It looks like a few millimeters of spacer washers has perhaps been added to the driveside locknut/spacer stack, or perhaps that a substitute cone with a much greater "length" was substituted at some point.
If the driveside axle locknut has an integral spacer, as it somewhat appears to have, then substituting a regular flat locknut may fix the driveside spacing.
The overall axle spacing will also then possibly need to be restored to 130mm by tinkering with the non-driveside locknut/spacer stack, and the axle then centered so as to protrude 4.5mm or so, equally, on both ends.