Analysis
VIDEO: John J. Mearsheimer: “Ukraine has already lost the war”
Dr. Mearsheimer appeared on the PBS NewsHour on 22 February 2024 to talk about the Ukraine war at the two-year point.
Ted Snider: How the West Provoked an Unprovoked War in Ukraine
“Toward the end of 2021,” The New York Times reports, “Mr. Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the C.I.A., together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.”
Turns out, he was right.
Geoffrey Roberts: The best books on the history of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Professor Emeritus Geoffrey Roberts selected The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach Us About Conflict Resolution by ACURA’s Nicolai Petro as among the top about the war in Ukraine:
Nicolai Petro uses classical Greek tragedy to analyse the internal Ukrainian divisions that eventually led to war with Russia. As Petro points out, Greek drama was a means of reconciliation as well as entertainment and was designed to foster civic dialogue about the roots of conflict situations and the dangers of disaster for all concerned.
Lucy Komisar: “Russian Troll Farm” uses proven lies to promote propaganda
“Russian Troll Farm” at the Vineyard is the most crude, amateurish, nasty piece of pseudo-theatrical claptrap I have seen reviewing theater since 1998 when I became a member of the Drama Desk.
ACURA ViewPoint: Paul R. Grenier: Thoughts on The Quincy Institute’s “The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine”
Anatol Lieven’s and George Beebe’s “The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine” serves as a refreshing antidote to the usual mainstream account of the Ukraine conflict. [Read more…] about ACURA ViewPoint: Paul R. Grenier: Thoughts on The Quincy Institute’s “The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine”
Neutrality Studies Podcast: Ex-NATO Official reveals lies about the war to German Public
Listen to Former German General Harald Kujat at a public lecture in Germany how he destroys the false pro-war narrative of the neocons. This talk was held in German and is dubbed into English thanks to the brilliant work of Andreas Voss who makes these translations possible.
Dr. E. Martin Schotz: Rethinking U.S. interests on anniversary of war in Ukraine
With the approaching second anniversary of Russia’s military operations in Ukraine, we can expect that there will be various solutions offered to the current war there. On one side there will be calls for billions more in U.S. and NATO military aid to Ukraine, and on the other side there will be calls for a cease-fire.
Michael von der Schulenburg: The Ukraine War could come to an unexpected end
Michael von der Schulenburg, a former UN Assistant Secretary-General, writes, “Even if there is still fighting at the front, recent developments in Ukraine would suggest that the war could end in a way that is completely unexpected in the West—with a Ukrainian-Russian agreement.”
Peter Hitchens: Who began this filthy war? Why didn’t we side with democracy against the Kiev mob?
It is ten years, not two years, since the war in Ukraine began. And once you have grasped that, you can begin to think clearly about it. What is Britain’s interest in this conflict? Why do so many in politics and the media cheer for carnage that has devastated Ukraine, the country they claim to love and admire? What has Ukraine gained from it? What can Ukraine and its people possibly gain from it?
I ask only that you use your minds instead of your emotions. Let us begin with what happened ten years ago. It ought to be shocking.
ACURA Marks Two Years Since The Russian Invasion of Ukraine, Part II
Today we mark the end of the second full year of fighting in Ukraine with more contributions from ACURA. May peace prevail in 2024. – ACURA
ACURA’s Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden: 10 years later: Maidan’s missing history
Edmund Wilson once wrote that “it is all too easy to idealize a social upheaval which takes place in some other country than one’s own.” And that was a trap into which the Obama administration — along with almost the entirety of the American media, intelligentsia and think tank world — fell in the immediate aftermath of the Maidan.
ACURA’s David C. Speedie: Then and Now: Eight Lingering Questions on U.S.-Russia-Ukraine (Carnegie, Feb. 2015)
Why do we fail to understand that threats do not work with Putin’s Russia?
ACURA’s Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne: Why Are We In Ukraine? (Harper’s, June 2023)
Far from expressing any ambition to conquer, occupy, and annex Ukraine (an impossible goal for the 190,000 troops that Russia eventually deployed in its initial attack on the country), all of Moscow’s demarches and demands during the run-up to the invasion made clear that “the key to everything is the guarantee that NATO will not expand eastward,” as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov put it in a press conference on January 14, 2022. “
ACURA’s Jack F. Matlock: The Biden-Stalin Doctrine
Stalin once remarked that a single death is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic. Apparently, President Biden shares that view.
ACURA Announcement: Two Years Since The Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Saturday, February 24th will mark two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a significant escalation of a war that began in 2014. Today we are publishing a number of new and previously written pieces on the conflict by our contributors. We hope these add to the general understanding of the war and its consequences. – ACURA
ACURA’s Krishen Mehta: Learning from Seneca…in the context of the Russia Ukraine War
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC–65 AD) was a Stoic philosopher of ancient Rome and tutor to emperors. Known for his philosophic works and essays dealing with thorny moral and political issues, Seneca used philosophy as a compass to navigate the challenging terrain of life. Recently, as I was reading a new translation of Sentences from Seneca, it struck me that some of Seneca’s teachings may apply to the tragic conflict that is still unfolding in Ukraine. In the spirit of bringing the wisdom of the past to bear on the present, I offer four of Seneca’s sentences as ways of illuminating the problems of the war. [Read more…] about ACURA’s Krishen Mehta: Learning from Seneca…in the context of the Russia Ukraine War
ACURA’s Anatol Lieven: To Seek Peace in Ukraine, Remember the End of the Cold War
An honest accounting with history in both Russia and the United States is essential if we are to bring about a lasting peace in Ukraine and escape from the past generation’s spiral of hostility, which could in the worst case become a death spiral for the whole of humanity.
ACURA’s James W. Carden: Post-Soviet Failures, Present-Day Realities
Two years since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine – and fully 10 years since the war actually began – the US political-media establishment seems as far away from learning any lessons from the failure of its post-Soviet Russia policy as it has ever been. [Read more…] about ACURA’s James W. Carden: Post-Soviet Failures, Present-Day Realities
ACURA’s Anatol Lieven and George Beebe: The Diplomatic Path to a Secure Ukraine
Conventional wisdom holds that a negotiated end to the Ukraine war is neither possible nor desirable. This belief is false.