Παρασκευή 8 Μαρτίου 2024
Two years on: How will Russia's war on Ukraine end?
As Russia enters its third year of war against Ukraine, we need to ask: how will this war end? Let us firstly revisit Emeritus Professor Paul Dibb's ANU Public Lecture in August 2022 when he set out the reasons why he thought Putin went to war.
1. The catastrophic collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Yeltsin’s recognition of a separate country called Ukraine.
Finally, if the aim of the US and its NATO allies is to “defeat” Russia how will this be achieved against a country with 1500 strategic nuclear weapons? And what would a defeated Russia look like? A Weimar Germany? Or can we conceive of other outcomes under a new Russian leadership?
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