The Importance of History in Relation to the Ukraine Conflict

The West has been pumping resources into Ukraine without any sense of why it's doing that and what the purpose is. I think there was an element where because there had been, there has been so much anti-Russian propaganda and thinking in Western circles for a long time. And we kind of made ourselves slightly blind to the possibility that that was about to happen. But then more broadly across the intellectual elites in the West, you write about this at length in your book: There was a surprise.