How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe

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And my background is I have an undergraduate degree in European History from the University of Pennsylvania. The author did a great job uncovering details and facts about the Ukraine war that have been buried. In Asia, only a handful of governments stood strongly with Ukraine – Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Real Change is a non-profit organization advocating for economic, social and racial justice since 1994. He is able to pull off a rather neat trick: criticizing the West’s role in inciting the war without straying into pro-Russian apologia.

Moreover, around three-quarters in each of these two countries and in India believe that Russia is either stronger, or at least equally strong, compared to how they say they perceived it before the war.Indeed, European countries responded with significant increases in their defence budgets, most notably Germany committing to two per cent of its GDP in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s recalibrating ‘Zeitenwende’ speech. In contrast to the days of the cold war, today one’s major trade partners are not usually one’s security partners.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. However, the reality is that sanctions have dealt Russia a chronic blow, limiting its room to manoeuvre in the future.But the reality is that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine confirmed the renewed centrality of American power to Europe – with billions of dollars spent maintaining the war effort, which has sustained unity across the Atlantic on sanctions and diplomatic positions towards Russia and given a new lease on life for Western-led institutions such as NATO and the G7. Seventy-one per cent of respondents in the US, 77 per cent in Great Britain, and 65 per cent in the EU countries polled alight on one of these two terms; they regard the future of relations with Russia as one of confrontation.

The straw men, the glaring omissions and skewed characterisations make it very clear the author is bringing a great deal of prejudice to this question. The Middle East and North Africa programme seeks to support a coherent European agenda in pursuit of regional interests. I don’t think they’re necessarily thinking they’re doing it at the expense of the country as a whole. He had no aspirations of becoming a world leader when he was young, he just wanted to be a KGB agent.The programme seeks to strengthen transatlantic relations by exploring the obstacles to a more balanced partnership and developing ideas to overcome them.

It is now clear that, contrary to the Kremlin’s expectations, the war has consolidated the West, rather than weakened it. There are also people in the military, I think, [where] their power and prestige is amplified when the country is at war like this or actively involved in a war. In China, the poll included panellists from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen agglomerations only. I won’t lay out his entire case here because the book is short enough and worthwhile enough to read regardless of your position on the conflict, but I will share what I think is the most compelling part of it: The West needs to set up and participate in peace talks immediately. The book should be read by every world leader, especially those in Western Europe who have used this war to grandstand on the world stage without once giving a thought to the reasons that brought Putin to boiling point.But, warns Jamie Shea, ‘the risk of escalation is ever present with a Russian regime on the back foot and willing to lash out.