LAST OF SOVEREIGN UKRAINE: 8/8: Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine Hardcover – November 19, 2024 by Eugene Finkel (Author)
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https://www.amazon.com/Intent-Destroy-Russias-Two-Hundred-Year-Dominate/dp/1541604679
Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet, to Ukrainians, this attack was painfully familiar, the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign to divide and oppress Ukraine.
In Intent to Destroy, political scientist Eugene Finkel uncovers these deep roots of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Whatever the outcome of the present war, Ukraine’s staunch resistance has permanently altered its relationship to Russia and the West. Intent to Destroy offers the vital context we need to truly understand Europe’s bloodiest conflict since World War II.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchew with Professor Eugene Finkel of Johns Hopkins. The book is intent to destroy, |
| 0:06.0 | highly recommended, before you form an opinion about what is to be done with Ukraine and the Ukraine |
| 0:13.0 | war. Russia's 200-year quest to dominate Ukraine. I recommend this to the European Union, to the European Union |
| 0:19.6 | Commission, now making decisions about |
| 0:22.6 | continuing to buy natural gas from Russia to the NATO forces who are not any longer |
| 0:29.6 | unanimous about the resistance to Russia. |
| 0:32.5 | I recommend the facts, but I turn to the professor also. |
| 0:36.0 | Professor, I know NATO is the explanation that Putin |
| 0:40.5 | offers the Russian people as to why he maintains the war with huge, huge casualties. And what |
| 0:48.1 | you'd have to say is a damage to a generation in Russia and the economy that will be many years in recovering. However, at the same time, |
| 0:58.0 | I want to know about the EU because the EU membership is not the same as NATO. It is the original |
| 1:06.2 | debate that was happening in Ukraine before the 2014 crisis. |
| 1:13.6 | Is the EU adequate for Ukraine now? |
| 1:17.6 | Is that imaginable? |
| 1:18.6 | Is that a way out for the European Commission to take charge of rebuilding NATO and providing |
| 1:24.6 | security? |
| 1:25.6 | Well, I would very much want, you know, Ukraine to join the EU and also NATO. |
| 1:32.3 | But I think, you know, if I'm right, then all those debates about which organization |
| 1:39.3 | Ukraine would or could not or should or should not join. |
| 1:42.3 | Just miss the core point. |
| 1:45.7 | If it's a war about history and about ideology and if Russians are really serious about, |
| 1:51.4 | you know, Ukraine not being a real state and them having to control Ukraine either directly |
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