Introduction
During his presidential campaign, President–elect Trump repeatedly warned that the world was on the brink of World War III. This rhetoric represented a clear recognition that we have seen an alarming slide toward increased global conflict in recent years. Dramatically increased tensions have emerged, or outright hot wars have erupted, around the planet from Ukraine to Taiwan, Korea, and the Middle East.
To truly put U.S. interests first, we must not accept the concept of a new global war while urging American participation in it, as some would have us do. Even apart from the risk of nuclear catastrophe, a true slide into World War III would carry immense costs for U.S. domestic revitalization, our security at home, and our global position abroad. Instead, we must pursue a vision of U.S. foreign policy leadership that emphasizes using our national strength to avert global conflict and supports a more stable, peaceful international order that will benefit the United States. This report contains a set of recommendations for the incoming Trump administration designed to support that vision.
This is a bullshit article:
Biden has erroneously viewed the war as a conflict over territory, believing Ukraine’s leverage depends on pushing Russian lines back. But for Russia, this war is primarily about defusing the threat posed by the United States and NATO. Putin cannot secure Russia against the 32-member NATO alliance or new U.S. missile technology by winning the war in Ukraine.
Anatol Lieven is a known russian shill. This war was never about NATO or threat from the US. It is a genocidal imperialist war.
Ukraine was neutral on a legal level before the beginning of the russian invasion in 2014. Russia already had a border with NATo by that point and now Finland has also joined NATO.
What Liiven is basically saying is that it is OK for russians to invade independent countries, exterminate Ukrianian identity and send 10 of thousands of people to torture camps in the occupied territories.
I hope one day Lieven and his family end up in a russian torture camp.
