President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised a radically different approach to foreign policy from that of the Biden administration. In Ukraine, he has pledged to end the war in a day.
But just weeks before he’s set to take office, the war has taken an unexpected turn.
Anton Troianovski, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times, discusses the conflict’s dangerous new phase.
Guest: Anton Troianovski (https://www.nytimes.com/by/anton-troianovski) , the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Tit-for-tat moves this week (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/world/europe/russia-ukraine-missiles.html) included the use of American-made ballistic missiles to strike inside Russia, and new nuclear threats from Moscow.
• As Ukraine fires U.S. missiles, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has sent a chilling message (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/world/europe/ukraine-russia-us-trump-putin.html) .
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New York Times is absolute junk news when it comes to Ukraine. Collective West is an emperor with no clothes.
I think it’s giving Putin too much credit to say he’s “getting away with it.” His goal was clearly the conquest of Ukraine and if the lines freeze where they are now, he will have less than half of that. The remainder of Ukraine will be out of his orbit for the rest of his life. Not to mention, if his goal was to stop NATO expansion, it backfired stupendously.
A tragic proxy war that never needed to happen. 600 Ukrainians dead, a country destroyed over what, NATO enlargement.
Oh come on. I was against this war since day one being half Ukrainian half Russian. The ICBM hit was in a city i was born. As one may guess i’m far from being a Putin fan. But i’m not blind. The US and EU were giving only enough help to Ukraine during those 2,5 years to only not be crashed instantly. They never wanted Ukraine to win. They wanted Ukrainians to pay with their blood for the US MIC and weaken Russia. Well hello , now you’ve got Russia operating completely in war mode. And now it’s over for Ukraine. Stop bullshitting your population – it’s over! The West lost this war. Man up and stop threatening the existence of the entire world just because BlackRock want their money back. Once and for all: Putin IS NOT bluffing. He will not back off, he is simply not able to do it. We’re seconds away from real life Fallout series. NATO LOST THIS WAR. STOP NOW.
Russia’s trying to bring back the Soviet state. They want to phoenix their empire. Are we so dumb to realize what that means.
Our mistake was not helping them become a stable democracy when the wall went down. They wanted and needed that from us. Now they’re totally jaded with the west and want to return to what was.
We failed them then and now they’re doing their best to fail us now. It didn’t have to be this way. Russia could’ve been more like Finland — successful and a decent partner to be with.
Instead it’s an all around F up. Instead we’re enemies again and things will have to get worst before anything can get better.