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Podcast: Bungacast
Episode: /270/ Russia vs the West ft. Richard Sakwa
Description:
On the endgame to war in Ukraine.
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Eminent Russian expert, Putin and Gorbachev biographer and ex-Sovietologist, Prof Richard Sakwa, joins us in advance of his imminent retirement from the University of Kent. We talk about the geopolitics of NATO expansion and the dynamics of the Ukraine war reaching back to 2014. How high is the risk of nuclear war now, and how might the Ukraine war play out?
Readings:
Whisper it, but Putin has a point in Ukraine, Richard Sakwa, The Spectator
The Dual State in Russia, Richard Sakwa, Post-Soviet Affairs
A Review of 'Frontline Ukraine' by Richard Sakwa, Peter Hitchens, M...