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Why the U.S. Misjudged Ukraine — The Influence of Russian Imperial Narratives on U.S. Policy Yale Professor Timothy Snyder testifies before the U.S. Helsinki Commission at its hearing on Russia’s Imperial Identity. In this segment, Snyder explores the connection between Russian empire and the way the United States has thought about the Russo-Ukrainian war. Snyder suggests that many Americans are aware of Russia’s big history, big literature, and big past, such that many Americans imbibe the Russian imperial narrative according to which other peoples were secondary, irrelevant, troublemakers, nationalists to…

February 2, 2022:  Three weeks before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, as Russia was amassing nearly 200,000 troops near Ukraine’s borders and NATO & U.S. intelligence warned of an imminent attack, Fiona Hill testified before the U.S. Helsinki Commission to explain Putin’s motivations. Fiona Hill previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian affairs on the U.S. National Security Council. Chapters: 00:00​ – A Crisis Manufactured by President Vladimir Putin 00:52​ – Moscow Re-Asserted Itself as the Dominant Force in Eurasia 03:19​ –…

Key take aways² a.  The US ambition to establish a world order based on hegemony manifested itself in NATO expansion b. Abandoning the agreements for an inclusive pan-European security architecture based on indivisible security and reviving zero-sum bloc politics has been the source of conflicts ever since.  c. The Ukraine War as a symptom of the collapsing unipolar era. d. The Ukraine War as a driver for multipolarity as the wider world has begun to construct an alternative international economic system and a multipolar world order. ____________________ 1. Prof Glenn…