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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No, I think it’s multilayered, and I think it ranges all the way from people who are very well-intentioned and, in fact, sometimes knowledgeable and have deep beliefs about the evil and the danger of the Russians.

The collapse of the supply of piped gas from Russia has forced Germany and many of its neighbours to source energy elsewhere including from Asia, the Middle East, and potentially Africa. Before Russia’s invasion, European states, such as France and Germany, had failed to adapt to new geopolitical realities in the region and Russia’s actions would lead to a dramatic reappraisal of European security posture. The fundamental decision by Germany is something Jamie Shea, associate fellow in the Chatham House International Security programme, says ‘I thought I would never see in my lifetime’, bringing security policy alongside foreign policy for the first time in decades.Andreas Bock led on strategic media outreach while Lucie Haupenthal and Michel Seibriger were crucial in coordinating advocacy efforts. Needs to be read and pondered by every citizen capable of thinking rationally and responsibly about American and European security. Although central, eastern and Baltic states have been more hawkish on Russia compared to states like Germany and France, they haven’t stopped the EU’s overall response. In the last decade, and particularly following the Trump years in the US, notions of European sovereignty and strategic autonomy have once again moved to the heart of European debates. Instead, the West will have to live, as one pole of a multipolar world, with hostile dictatorships such as China and Russia, but also with independent major powers such as India and Turkiye.

If you do not consider anything Russia has done internationally or the aggression, conflict and violence towards others than fine. The US has its protectionist Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) offering large subsidies for domestic production of electrical vehicles and other ‘green’ sectors, and the EU recently announced a revised ‘Green Deal Industrial Plan’ it hopes will rival it. The Middle East and North Africa programme seeks to support a coherent European agenda in pursuit of regional interests.

Russian citizens will no longer be able to rely on their Convention rights nor have redress to the European Convention on Human Rights for new cases. Benjamin Abelow: I guess the most basic point is I’m an American citizen who is very concerned about the direction of U. The opportunist move, says Chatham House UK in the World Initiative director John Kampfner, is an obvious promotion of its post-Brexit ‘Global Britain’ credentials.

This is a fairly short and extremely well written book which uses palin language to demonstrate beyond any doubt that the fundamental reason to the current war in Ukraine is not Putin's madness or imperialism but a deliberate policy of USA ruling elite to create an imminent danger directly next to the heart of Russian federation. I think the first and most important step is for people to try to educate themselves beyond what they’re hearing in the mainstream media and beyond the kind of glib statements of their “political leaders” who, as I said before, have a particular viewpoint. Regardless of how you feel about the conclusions they are sufficiently well reasoned and counter to the mainstream narrative that the book is worthy of your attention. In addition, self-sanctioning by thousands of companies, from Apple to McDonald’s, who either ceased or curtailed operating in Russia has effectively added to pressure.In the sort of bipolar world scenario expected by Americans and Europeans, the role of countries such as India and Turkiye may be as swing states that – however reluctantly – will be forced to define their loyalties and take sides. Any future president would be expected to deliver a new Ukraine which is a member of both NATO and the EU, and strive to build a safe and successful country, says Orysia Lutsevych. I think there are others, going on the far end of things, where the manufacturers of military hardware are very deeply and in a very immediate sense shaped by monetary influences — that there’s a great deal of money to be made and that is being made through the prosecution of this war. Although significant numbers of European citizens still wish the war to cease as soon as possible, the poll appears to show a clear trend over the last year towards preferring Ukraine to win even if the conflict endures some time longer.

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. Putin’s decision for a full, illegal re-invasion of Ukraine was a huge gamble which many Russia analysts say he has already likely lost by pushing the nation back out into the cold and putting the regime under threat. During the Iraq war of 2003, leading European intellectuals such as Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas tried to define the EU’s political identity in contrast to that of the US. 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.Nor is its population willing to give up their reasonable living standard and economic liberty for a conflict that brings long term pain and generational division across the Strait. And for the vast majority of Chinese and Turks, Western support for Ukraine is motivated by reasons other than a defence of Ukraine’s territorial integrity or of its democracy. This is so vital’ says Lutsevych as impunity ‘undermines effective resistance in the war and derails Ukraine’s ambitions for closer ties with Europe’. Dragging Ukraine into NATO by the hair was an act of vandalism and political stupidity and we are all paying for it now.