5 More Questions For Stephen Kotkin: Ukraine Edition

Hoover Institute ^ | 4/3/22 | Stephen Kotkin

[Eleutheria5]

Last month, Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson asked Princeton Professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Stephen Kotkin 5 questions, all in the foreign policy and history realm. Since then, the world has changed in ways that were unimaginable just 3 weeks ago. So we asked Professor Kotkin to come back for a second round of questions, this time all dedicated to one topic: the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And as usual, his answers are concise, incisive, and analytic. If you want to understand this crisis and some possible outcomes, don’t miss this conversation.

[Eleutheria5]

Distinguished historian gives perspective on conflict, East/West relations, Pygmalion Syndrome afflicting West keeps them getting it wrong, etc. Profound thinker, Kotkin.

[FreshPrince]

I think Zel is a bit off. Its the worst atrocity in Europe since what the Russian best buds the Serbs did in the former yugoslavia - Seige of Sarajevo and Sebernecia

[BeauBo]

And hour and twenty minutes is a lot to ask.

Any highlights that you could offer?

[ptsal]

Cartels in Mexico seem to have the capacity to clear out a village.

[Steven Tyler]

Ukraine leader has been on a cocaine bender since the war started

[Callnote]

It sure seems like the EU is making their people take those cut backs down the throat. It is too hard for me to believe that any nation in the west is being supported by their citizens, well except for the ones caught up in the medias web. What if you just predicted Russia was going to do what it said it was going to do and leave Ukraine to Ukrainians who have been being killed,, which by the way, it is public domain knowledge the shelling and bombing in Ukraine started the 17th, not the 24th

[Eleutheria5]

Are you his supplier?

[Eleutheria5]

Listen until it’s no longer interesting. I already gave you the Pygmalion syndrome.

[Zhang Fei]

[And hour and twenty minutes is a lot to ask.

Any highlights that you could offer?]

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[Steven Tyler]

No, I spot his telltale signs that could be from a cocaine addiction

[Eleutheria5]

Well, it could be. We’ll have to stay tuned for more substantial evidence one way or the other.

[Steven Tyler]

Agreed, 100%