The timing is one of the many things i don't understand about this decision by the russians to invade. There was a very aggressive report put out by the atlantic council calling for a new strategy, essentially a sort of ramping up more military aid to ukrane. So that may have been some pressure from within the belt wayto to re prioriti away from the kind of cold war with china.
Tony Wood returns to The Dig to discuss Russia’s invasion, what it reflects about Russian politics and geopolitics today and historically, and how the Left should be thinking about it all.
Tony's LRB essay: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n04/tony-wood2/why-didn-t-they-stop-it
Listen to past Dig eps for context on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine:
Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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