How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe

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This includes analysing the path forward for enlargement, the energy transition, and European support for Ukraine. If you are under 16 and wish to give consent to optional services, you must ask your legal guardians for permission. The UK has been keen to stress its ‘special relationship’ with Kyiv with a desire especially by former prime minister Boris Johnson to lead the pack with strong rhetoric and military support. Dr Lewis says another new disturbing development in Russia’s wider intimidation strategy has been ‘playing fast and loose’ with the safety of nuclear energy in Ukraine, such as the shelling and attacks around the Zaporizhya plant and fears of a dirty bomb detonated as a ‘false flag’ attack. No mention is made of the west's, especially America's role, in providing all the ingredients for the conflict.

Restoring territorial integrity, delivering justice for war crimes, and making the Kremlin pay for destruction, all constitute key elements of a Ukraine victory and are the foundation for renewed European security architecture, says Lutsevych. In all European countries the sample was nationally representative of basic demographics and past vote. The West has not disintegrated, but its consolidation has come at a moment when other powers will not simply do as it wishes. Rather than empire-building, having suffered so intensely through the 2WW, the USSR’s determined priority has always been security. Can you describe how anyone who doesn’t have much media literacy could be expected to understand that?India is also, as noted, the only CITRUS country where the prevailing opinion is that the US (28 per cent) and Europe (36 per cent) are mostly supporting Ukraine to defend it as a democracy – this may reflect India’s sense of itself as the world’s largest democracy.

Who’s benefiting and who would benefit from all this propaganda, making it look like they weren’t involved in [the provocation]? International negotiations are underway to reach agreement on crucial global issues such as plastics and biodiversity. They will never again live in shadow of the Russian empire and are confident it will collapse,’ says Orysia Lutsevych, head of the Ukraine Forum at Chatham House.The key findings of a new multi-country global poll indicate that, a year since Russia’s war on Ukraine began, the US and its European allies have regained their unity and sense of purpose.

Russia has a history of being invaded from the west; at the beginning of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 20th century and, most devastatingly, during the 2WW when the USSR lost more people than the combined total of the rest of its western allies. Since then, Putin has consistently promoted the project in his addresses to the Federal Assembly, in meetings with foreign leaders, at subsequent St. It might disappoint Europeans that governments and publics in places such as India and Turkiye tend to view Russia’s aggression through the prism of their national interest rather than universal principles.

However, almost a third of respondents in Russia did not select any country as having a real democracy. The US programme helps Europeans create policy responses to developments in US domestic politics and foreign policy. But what I’m trying to ask is what is the importance of knowing how we got here to getting out of it or to coming to a better resolution than we’re heading towards?

However, the reality is that sanctions have dealt Russia a chronic blow, limiting its room to manoeuvre in the future. There are a lot of people who, as individuals, are benefiting from this, but I think they’re doing it at the expense of the country as a whole. This view is shared in the US, Great Britain, and the EU states polled by, respectively, just 37 per cent, 29 per cent, and 31 per cent of people. Would you describe yourself as kind of like an anti-war activist, or how would you characterize your views there? The book should be read by every world leader, especially those in Western Europe who have used this war to grandstand on the world stage without once giving a thought to the reasons that brought Putin to boiling point.Crucially, US support for NATO and security in Europe also appears cemented with bipartisan support at home, although this is something Chatham House US and the Americas programme director Dr Leslie Vinjamuri says should not be taken for granted following four years of a US president who ‘courted’ Putin.