#UKRAINE OUT OF MONEY, AMMO, HOPE: 2/8: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. by Serhii Plokhy (Author)
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
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https://www.amazon.com/Russo-Ukrainian-War-Return-History/dp/1324051191
...Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path. In a new international environment defined by the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the disintegration of the post–Cold War international order, and a resurgence of populist nationalism, Ukraine is now more than ever the most volatile fault line between authoritarianism and democratic Europe.
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| 0:45.7 | written between the Winter of 22 and the Winter of 23, the War 500 days plus, unknown future. |
| 0:54.2 | We are discussing the roots of it because that will somehow be present in when there is |
| 0:59.5 | an end of it or at least a ceasefire. Professor Vladimir Putin becomes critical here because it's his |
| 1:08.0 | authority that drives the tragedy. |
| 1:11.0 | He becomes president in May of 2000 with a constitution that |
| 1:16.9 | empowers him, although it limits him to two terms. Later on of course that |
| 1:21.6 | will become something he can manipulate because the presidency in Russia, |
| 1:26.6 | thanks to Boris Yeltsin and Vauche saved by Bill Clinton, is much more powerful than our understanding of checks and balances here in the United States. |
| 1:35.0 | That gives Putin the power both to play the friend of the U.S. during the war on terror and also moved towards the |
| 1:47.4 | assumption that he has the right to dictate who can join NATO, who can join EU, who can be Western regarding and who cannot. |
| 1:56.2 | You identify April of 2008 as an important summit for NATO and Bucharest. |
| 2:02.8 | At that time, Georgia and Ukraine both wanted to join NATO. |
| 2:06.4 | What happened? |
| 2:10.1 | What happened was split within the alliance. |
| 2:13.9 | The United States at that time, |
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