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Today @ Noon ET: Book Talk – Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
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As the Ukraine War heads into its third year, it is clear that the grinding military battle has not resulted in a clear path to victory for either side, despite all efforts — including billions of dollars of weapons and aid — by the West to destroy the Russian presence there and even the Putin leadership back in Moscow. For many in Western capitals, the media, and especially the Washington establishment, this should have been a clearcut case of an invader and violator of sovereignty and democracy denying conquest.
But history has a tendency to complicate things, and as journalist Scott Horton writes in painstaking detail, that this is not just a story of Russian revanchism, but the apotheosis of decades of American policy to diminish and isolate the former Soviet Union for the benefit of its own empire. In Provoked: How Washington started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine (2024), Horton unearths the building blocks of the crisis, beginning with President H.W. Bush and leading right into the twilight of the Biden Administration.
January 2025
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12:00 PM ET
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Join us for a timely and important discussion with:
Scott Horton
Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He is the author of "Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism" (2021), and "Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan" (2017).
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos (Moderator)
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos is a senior advisor for the Quincy Institute and editorial director at Responsible Statecraft. Previously she served as Executive Editor at The American Conservative magazine, where she has been a contributing editor since 2007. She also spent 15 years as an online political reporter in the Washington bureau of Fox News.
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