380. Michael Kimmage - Putin's War in Ukraine Ushers in a New Age of Global Instability and Confrontation

In Collisions, Michael Kimmage, traces the origins of the Russia-Ukraine
war. He unpicks the development of Ukraine and Russia's fractious
relationship back to the end of the Cold War, through the central events
that led to Vladimir Putin seizing Crimea in 2014 and, eight years
later, initiating the most intensive and widescale military
confrontation of the post-WWII era. This conflict ushers in a new age of
global instability, and a collision between Russia and the Western
alliance that is far hotter than confrontations during the Cold War.
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Michael Kimmage is a professor of history at the Catholic University of
America. Michael is author of books and articles about international
affairs, Soviet and Russian politics, and the European-American
relationship. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the Secretary's Policy
Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State. He is a senior
non-resident associate at the Centre for Strategic and International
Studies.
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CHAPTERS:
00:01:55 The fractious relationship with Russia never really went away
00:04:21 External peace and internal Terror during the interwar period
00:07:18 Impact of Putin's speech at the 2007 Munich Security Conference
00:10:25 Were the signs of impending conflict accumulating in 2021?
00:14:36 Putin has used distraction and lying to fool West since 2014
00:16:57 The stages of Putinism with increasing internal repression
00:23:35 Grienance and victimhood that underpins Putin's worldview
00:29:24 The European contradiction - wealth but low defence investment
00:32:04 Lack of strategy and a concept of victory among the allies
00:34:29 Is there a chance in Europe's attitude to the war and Ukraine
00:40:05 Is 'Bidenism' just as risky for Ukraine as 'Trumpism'?
00:43:44 Is there a problem in Washington with the idea of taking Crimea?
00:49:35 Are we paying too little attention to weakness in Russian
economy?
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LINKS:
https://twitter.com/mkimmage
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kimmage-66654a5/
https://www.csis.org/people/michael-kimmage
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/person/michael-kimmage
https://history.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/kimmage-michael/index.html
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/collisions-9780197751794?cc=gb&lang=en&
https://www.gmfus.org/find-experts/michael-kimmage
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ARTICLES:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/michael-kimmage
https://www.americanpurpose.com/authors/michael-kimmage/
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BOOKS:
Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global
Instability (2024)
The Abandonment of the West: The History of an Idea in American Foreign
Policy (2020)
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TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:
Save Ukraine
https://www.saveukraineua.org/

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
https://superhumans.com/en/

UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in
Ukraine
https://unbroken.org.ua/

Come Back Alive
https://savelife.in.ua/en/

Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen
https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy
https://u24.gov.ua/

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
https://prytulafoundation.org
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