"The West bears primary responsibility for what is happening today. And it is important to realize that this is a disaster.
The real losers in the war are the Ukrainians, regardless of how it turns out for Russia or the United States."
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"The West bears primary responsibility for what is happening today. And it is important to realize that this is a disaster.
The real losers in the war are the Ukrainians, regardless of how it turns out for Russia or the United States."
John is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, given by the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.” His principal work on Ukraine is “Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault: The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin,” appearing in September-October Foreign Affairs 2014.
Excerpts, 'Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Salon', Committee for the Republic, March 2, 2022.
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