This asshat sucked me in until I read what you posted, and obviously the whole article is bullcrap.
He’s delusional if he thinks the US did NOT want this war. He’s also crazy thinking that Biden didn’t have much to do with it. Leaving Afghanistan, not providing aid to Ukraine back in November when the US supposedly could see the Russians collection on the borders.
I don’t understand why this article was posted to begin with. It’s mental masturbation.....
CREDITS OF TIMOTHY D. SNYDER
“Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has written several books, including the best-sellers Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.
Snyder is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Snyder has held fellowships at the French National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris from 1994 to 1995, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna in 1996, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University in 1997, and was an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University from 1998 to 2001.
He has also been an instructor at the College of Europe Natolin Campus, the Baron Velge Chair at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the Cleveringa Chair at the Leiden University, Philippe Romain Chair at the London School of Economics, and the 2013 René Girard Lecturer at Stanford University. Prior to assuming the Richard C. Levin Professorship of History, Snyder was the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University.
He is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. On 25 September 2020, he was named as one of the 25 members of the “Real Facebook Oversight Board”, an independent monitoring group over Facebook. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Modern European History and East European Politics and Societies.
For the academic year 2013–2014, he held the Philippe Roman Chair of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Snyder has written five books and co-edited two. He says that he speaks five European languages and reads ten. This enables him to use primary and archival sources in Germany and Central Europe in his research. Snyder has stressed that in order to engage in such transnational history, knowing other languages is very important, saying “If you don’t know Russian, you don’t really know what you’re missing.”
In 2010, Snyder published Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin. Bloodlands was a best seller[16] and has been translated into 20 languages. In an interview with Slovene historian Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič in 2016, Snyder described the book as an attempt to overcome the limitations of national history in explaining the political crimes perpetrated in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s:
The point of Bloodlands was that we hadn’t noticed a major event in European history: the fact 13 million civilians were murdered for political reasons in a rather confined space over a short period of time. The question of the book was: ‘How this could have happened?’ We have some history of Soviet terror, of the Holocaust, of the Ukrainian famine, of the German reprisals against the civilians. But all of these crimes happened in the same places in a short time span, so why not treat them as a single event and see if they can be unified under a meaningful narrative.”
VIDEO: https://www.timothysnyder.org/lecture-videos