Boiling Point: How America Brought War to Ukraine
Among the clearest articulations of an iconoclastic, wildly counterintuitive argument — namely, that America and NATO, not Russia, are principally responsible for the war in Ukraine ... Although Kinzer doesn’t endorse Putin’s war on Ukraine, he condemns it only briefly and with qualifications ... The fundamental shortcoming of Kinzer’s argument is that it allows for little agency to Ukrainians themselves, or the Russian leadership for that matter ... In a narrow sense, Kinzer’s overarching thesis is probably right.
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This robustly documented book is a useful and well-written history of not only modern Ukraine but also U.S. foreign policy and intelligence.
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A damning, well-argued case study in war by proxy.
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