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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It also places a renewed emphasis on fostering Europe’s relationships with the Indo-Pacific, especially India and Japan.

In April 1987, during a visit to Czechoslovakia, Gorbachev went on to describe the strategic importance of the ‘all-European house’. Do you think that there is a lack of clarity in the way that the war has been explained to the American public?Prudent, given that it’s just a little bit too long for even the most dedicated online reader and just a little bit too short to be considered a proper work of political nonfiction. En ese sentido, resulta una lectura muy útil, en medio de un conflicto que genera, necesariamente, información sesgada. Most people in major non-Western countries such as China, India, Turkiye, and Russia predict the West will soon be just one global pole among several. And even if it’s not a deliberate attempt, like to fire bomb the German cities, or to fire bomb the Japanese cities, to say nothing of the atomic bomb, there’s a lot of innocent casualties involved.

NATO broke promises it had made not to move an inch east and Russia, the most extensive country in the world with vast natural resources, continued to be besieged by surrounding US and NATO bases. You can give your consent to whole categories or display further information and select certain cookies. Here’s what my response would be: When one has a certain understanding of a situation about what is going on or how one got there, it has very direct consequences for what steps one should be taking and what steps one thinks one should be taking in the future. Finland and Sweden, two countries which have until now shunned NATO membership to avoid antagonizing Russia, are also set to join the alliance in a historic shift. I believe that our true interest as Americans are actually closely aligned with the true interests of the Ukrainians.Susi Dennison, Josef Lolacher, and Anand Sundar made sensitive and useful suggestions on the substance. By way of comparison, 31 per cent of Americans and Britons characterise their own country as “declining. 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. Very objective, with great respect for all sides, just citing facts many people would love to hide in pushing their secret agendas. I almost feel guilty for even talking about the fate of another country, like I don’t have the right to.

On the contrary: in the view of many people outside the West, their own countries are also democracies – and are perhaps even the best democracies. Restoring territorial integrity, delivering justice for war crimes, and making the Kremlin pay for destruction, all constitute key elements of a Ukraine victory and are the foundation for renewed European security architecture, says Lutsevych. Just 9 per cent of people in the US, 7 per cent in the EU countries polled, and 4 per cent in Great Britain see American global supremacy as the most likely state of affairs in a decade from now.Russia’s invasion has also strengthened NATO’s deterrence posture and increased its forward presence in Eastern Europe. The Turkish public has a comparable world view, seeing almost everyone predominantly as a “partner,” whether it is the US (51 per cent), China (47 per cent), Russia (55 per cent), or the EU (53 per cent). Timothy Ash, associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia programme, says that while there is a small possibility of positive change with reforming forces emerging, more likely is the disintegration of the Russian federation into many new states. Benjamin Abelow’s clear, concise account of the United States and NATO’s largely unreported role in escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine is an outlier in our discourse about the current conflict. The reason for this Western uncertainty probably comes from Turkiye’s flaunting of its new sovereign foreign policy while remaining, at least on paper, a member of NATO.