UKRAINE: How the US Stumbled Into War
Channel: daniel torres
Date: 2022-03-06

The war in Ukraine is, at its core, a proxy war between Russia and the United States and it's been brewing since the fall of the Soviet Union. The United States has pursued expansionist foreign policy in the post-Soviet states, implementing capitalist shock therapy to plunder Eastern European nations of their resources while establishing itself as the world's single power. Both Russia and Ukraine have been victims of this to varying extents. At the same time, Russia and the post-Soviet states have struggled finding their place in this new world order, and in this struggle for meaning, most post-Soviet states have found themselves aligned closer to the West than the East. Increasingly isolated and encircled, Russia rebuilt itself as an illiberal imperialist power of its own and in its attempt at countering the West’s influence with it’s own, Ukraine has become the unfortunate ground zero of this battle. While the conflict has been escalating for decades, it wasn’t inevitable. There were multiple off-ramps on the path to war that Western powers not only failed to take, but they actively avoided, making the conflict worse. As for what the future holds, it’s hard to say. But, before we go back to the beginning and look at the details, it’s important to remember the losses, the men, women and children who have lost their lives, throughout all of this. When giant powers resort to war, it’s regular people who suffer most.

Sources: In Putin's Footsteps, Is Russia Fascist, After Empire, The Gates of Europe, Ukraine's Orange Revolution, among others. For a more comprehensive list of sources, check out the original script on Google Docs:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YnSdS8EKnJoms8xROuCiVBQM5sZ2okb-CHlqV9cidUE/edit?usp=sharing

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0:00 Intro
6:13 Shock Therapy
9:45 NATO Expansion
16:05 Bombing of Yugoslavia
23:18 Changing Tides
27:00 An Orange Revolution
33:02 The Great Reset
40:19 The Maidan Moment
51:51 A Double Headed Eagle
56:36 How We Stop The War

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