[soledades]

Timothy Snyder is a historian who has written on extensively on the history of Ukraine (Bloodlands) and Putin (The Road to Unfreedom).

I'm not familiar with The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, but Dr. Snyder makes some strong counterpoints to the Mearsheimer way of thinking on Ukraine in this [1] podcast and others.

He has also given a timely history on modern Ukraine [2], but I have not got around to listening to it.

[1] https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/10/25/historian-timothy-sn...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNewfxO7LhBoz...

[lmm]

We tried appeasement back in the '30s, it didn't go so well. There are cases where the right thing is to fight to the last man is appropriate. I certainly hope we don't reach the point of western nations having to draft the likes of me and send us to defend Ukraine, but if it comes to that then it beats letting Russia take what they want. Once you start doing that there's no end to it.

[int_19h]

So far it looks more like Russia is self-destructing in Ukraine, so why would Ukrainians yield?

[AnimalMuppet]

Thus spoke Chamberlain.