Taras Kuzio - How Experts on Russia and Military Analysts got Analysis of the Ukraine War so Wrong

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GUEST: Taras Kuzio - academic and Professor of Political Science, expert on politics, crime and security in Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia.
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Did a belligerent NATO force Putin’s hand to invade Ukraine, or is that just part of a propaganda narrative designed to divide and confound Russia’s opponents? He undoubtedly also feared an independent, democratic, and affluent Ukraine – which was becoming a threat to his own Power Vertical, by its example of how a country could drag itself out of the post-soviet imperial quagmire. Putin has by his actions, created the thing he fears. NATO more united than ever – a resurgent West remembering its values and rapidly rearming. And Ukraine – strong like never before, a nation emerging from under the yoke of centuries of imperial domination and oppression.
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SPEAKER:
Taras Kuzio is a British academic and Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, and an expert on politics, crime and security in Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. Taras Kuzio is of Ukrainian descent and received a BA in economics from the University of Sussex, an MA in Soviet studies from the University of London and holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Birmingham; he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. His most recent book is Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022), which was published prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. This follows two other books on Russia-Ukraine relations. In total, he is the author and editor of sixteen books. He is an associate research fellow at the UK Henry Jackson Society thinktank and has contributed to the Atlantic Council, Foreign Affairs, Kyiv Post, New Eastern Europe, and E-International Relations.
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BOOKS:
Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (2022)
Putin's War Against Ukraine: Revolution, Nationalism, and Crime (2017)
Ukraine: Democratization, Corruption, and the New Russian Imperialism (2015)
Independent Ukraine: Nation-state Building and Post-communist Transition (2015)
Ukraine – Crimea – Russia: Triangle of Conflict (2014)
Democratic Revolution in Ukraine: From Kuchmagate to Orange Revolution (2013)
Ukraine: State and Nation Building (2002)
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#tarakuzio #ukraine #ukrainewar #russia #zelensky #putin #propaganda
#war #disinformation #hybridwarfare #foreignpolicy #communism #sovietunion #postsoviet
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