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What Putin Got Wrong About Ukraine, Russia, and the West
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What Putin Got Wrong About Ukraine, Russia, and the West

A Conversation With Stephen Kotkin

Dan Kurtz-Phelan and Stephen Kotkin
Foreign Affairs, 2022
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What is the endgame for Russia in its war with Ukraine? Historian Stephen Kotkin assesses Russia’s and the world’s options in this illuminating conversation with Dan Kurtz-Phelan, host of the Foreign Affairs podcast. They discuss Russian history and culture as these relate to present-day events, and they assess the effects of the West’s Ukraine support on the war’s evolution and on post-conflict global geopolitics, particularly in regard to China. Readers interested in understanding the conflict’s many variables will find much food for thought here.

Take-Aways

  • Russian leadership has long been bound up with the country’s history of autocracy. 
  • Vladimir Putin did not anticipate the West’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  • China’s decision to stand behind Russia appears to have been a grave miscalculation.

About the Podcast

Stephen Kotkin is a professor of history at Princeton University and a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Dan Kurtz-Phelan is editor of Foreign Affairs and the host of its podcast, The Foreign Affairs Interview.

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