Historian Every Saturday: Serhiy Gromenko. Why did Russia attack Ukraine? (14.01.2024)

Date
14 January 2024
Duration
1:14:55
Platform
YouTube
Participants
Serhiy Gromenko

An academic lecture by historian Serhiy Gromenko (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) on the causes of the Russian invasion. Gromenko argues that the real driver is not “NATO expansion” but imperial revanchism: the model was the 2008 Georgian war (seizing territory politically consolidated Russian society despite the economic failure), and support for the war extends to the majority of Russians, for whom Ukraine is not a subject in its own right. A source for the article on the Russo-Ukrainian war of 2014 (deepening the section on causes).

Key moments

  1. 15:00 The 2008 Georgian war as a model: seizing territory consolidated society
  2. 16:30 Not only Putin's war: 60–67% of Russians support it, and to them Ukraine is not a subject
  3. 26:00 The main cause is imperial revanchism (revenge for the defeats of the 1990s)

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