Silicon Curtain | Michael Kimmage - Putin's War in Ukraine Ushers in a New Age of Global Instability and Confrontation @SiliconCurtain | Uploaded March 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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:
twitter.com/mkimmage
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csis.org/people/michael-kimmage
wilsoncenter.org/person/michael-kimmage
https://history.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/kimmage-michael/index.html
global.oup.com/academic/product/collisions-9780197751794?cc=gb&lang=en&
gmfus.org/find-experts/michael-kimmage
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ARTICLES:
foreignaffairs.com/authors/michael-kimmage
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
saveukraineua.org

Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas
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
wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine

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

Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
prytulafoundation.org
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