Ukraine war reflects a failure of both Russian and U.S. leadership, says Harvard professor

Stephen Walt of Harvard University says the war was the result of a "miscalculation" by Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as the United States' failure to engage in a more "flexible diplomacy" in the months before the conflict.

[@kriskris4776]

Usa gov weak old fallen downstairs.

[@tonydoe877]

Prime reason why the news is not worth listening to…ever

[@barumbadum]

Where i can find full interview?

[@jamesjackovich5886]

There was no large scale NATO military force in any of countries bordering Russia Ukraine is a farming country that was no threat to Russia , this invasion is an atrocity to the people that lived there

[@Fightback2023]

It's the geopolitical position of Ukraine. If Ukraine joins NATO, then nuclear missiles can be placed there. Just like US objected to Cuba's missile crisis.

[@nancylee7435]

Of course Ukraine is not a threat..the threat is from those US led NATO allies who are slowly building up their forces around Russia and making Ukraine the pawn in the whole war game!

[@Real_OSHA_Unsafety_Engineer]

There was no large scale.... say that to the 100k Ukrainian soldiers stationed at the Russian borders wayyy back Jan 2021... and Ofcourse a Swiss NATO advisor reported it. Say that to the Ukrainian intensified shelling at the beginning of January 2021, which was tripled the amount of shells bombing Donbas according to UN report.

[@jamesjackovich5886]

@@Real_OSHA_Unsafety_Engineer first Stalin deported over 2 million Tartars the original inhabitants of Crimea and had Russians move in then committed the Holodomor killing over 3 Ukrainians , then Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014 taking over Crimea and the Donbass region starting the war, now's he's invading the rest of Ukraine and your talking about Ukraine defending itself?

[@jamesjackovich5886]

@@Fightback2023 Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1992 in exchange for its sovereignty its like the US invading Cuba without missiles even arriving there yet saying they might show up someday, after Stalin committed the Holodomor killing over 3 million Ukrainians to and hundreds of Katyn massacres all over eastern Europe these people don't want Russian troops or Russian overlords paying them peanuts the median income in Russia is less than 11,000 a year less than half of what a garbage man in Germany makes a year they want more freedoms opportunities and better paying jobs, since the 1950s Russia has had nuclear weapons on trucks along their border they can launch at anytime if anything the European Union needs its own unified military with soldiers from every country to defend their own borders to protect themselves from Russia , Russia is already 3 times the size of the US with half as many people and needs to stay out of other countries, no country or NATO was threatening Russia, that's the biggest lie since Bush said Saddam had WMDs

[@PD55_]

Too late for leadership is right. Should have let Patton roll into Moscow.

[@officialreplik5095]

Patton didn t have the balls to roll in Moscow

[@seanzibonanzi64]

Umm the Soviet army in Europe was like twice the size of the allies at the end of the war. If anything, they could've rolled us right off the continent

[@PD55_]

@@seanzibonanzi64 just 2X the casualties.

[@seanzibonanzi64]

@@PD55_ more like 10x casualties, But they also killed 80%- 90% of the Nazi army so what's your point?

[@SK-lt1so]

"More flexible"? So when your house gets broken into, you need to be "flexible" with the thief?

[@owenthomas5103]

Exactly, the number of people who think trying to fit a security alarm is a provocation to the burglar 🤦‍♂️

[@wuhaninstituteofvirology]

yes, you have to be flexible & look @ your options in real time, for the situation @ hand; do you have a panic room to take refuge in? do you have weapons you can attack the the thief with? can you escape? can a diplomatic solution be reached in negotiated talks with the thief ?...(*all options are on the table)

[@owenthomas5103]

@@wuhaninstituteofvirology ok, say you DO have weapons and the thief's demand are that he now owns half your kitchen and dining room and you can still live in the other half but ownership is to be transferred to a "thief friendly" cairtaker and they refuse to negotiate on those points. Then what flexibility do you have?

[@SK-lt1so]

@@wuhaninstituteofvirology 😆😆😆 You be "flexible"with the next thief in your house! Go for it, champ!

[@asfdafasdfwfrg]

beijing trying to help other country??? seriously when that happened?

[@deepdude4719]

I totally agree.

[@dericofdorking]

Of course security takes priority, what good is education and hospitals if you're open to be invaded? The peace dividend post world war 2 is over, everybody is waking up to the fact that war is a reality again and need to be prepared or face the terrible circumstances Ukraine is currently facing.

[@ishrendon6435]

Youre a fool

[@ishrendon6435]

He means over expending you know that rigth?? He doesnt mean dont spend at all but when youre so irrationally scared , you do foolish things like over spend on the miltary its very unlikely west Europe and america will ever be invaded by other nations

[@ishrendon6435]

Many poorer countries especially in Europe but also america that has overreached its military spending continues to fuel the machine even though we dont need to we have a very powerful miltary though we have been losing wars like crazy lately so idk why we hype up our miltary lol

[@owenthomas5103]

Also what point is there in not been invaded if your current government does nothing for you but tax you for more tanks.

[@canadianloon6433]

Not both sorry. How can you sit there and talk about Putin's strategy? I didn't know you were an expert in leading a Country and wars You are a true Democrat and that's why Biden will sink the ship. Yes yes we have one like Biden here as well.

[@evelynnieves]

Nice

[@vrfvfdcdvgtre2369]

"More flexible diplomacy" - well...the US tried to make Ukraine a NATO member with a US-friendly government, so...

[@owenthomas5103]

NO Ukrain ASKED to join NATO, after decades of Russian aggression pushed it into being West leaning.

[@Beantastrophe]

Says Chinese shill*

[@Johnsmith99663]

He sounds pretty smart, I wonder which university he teaches at.

[@canadianloon6433]

He thinks he's smart.

[@officialreplik5095]

@@canadianloon6433 he is dummy

[@Ayeen1986]

You sound smart too, which uni did you attend?

[@barumbadum]

@@Ayeen1986 🤣🤣🤣

[@arjay2973]

disagree. it shows US failure in international politics and economy

[@farzana6676]

Lol, US got nothing to do with this.

[@owenthomas5103]

Ukraine ASKED to join a defensive alliance because of Russian threats. US dose many dumb things but it's blaimless in this situation.

[@boysiedent6149]

Mr WALT - Unfortunately I am forced to conclude that you are one of the most insidious individuals in America - Your [ Reasoning - Observation - Conclusion ] - is based on an evil sense of propierty - What sort of level of mental damage could facilitate such an assessment -s extremely difficult to fathom - but as they say [ ONLY IN AMERICA ]!

[@owenthomas5103]

Putin clearly had his mind set on indirectly owning Ukraine with a pupit leader- he said as much in a speach about rebuilding Russia empire. How the hell would "note flexible negosiation" by the US solve that?

[@freeloader247]

"clearly". U need to write articles. NYT for example. Can have huge career there.

[@owenthomas5103]

@@freeloader247 yer clearly only people with perfect English can comment on Europe 🤦‍♂️

[@killraven8783]

Yes, cause diplomacy has always stopped wars in human history. There should have been more state dinners to hash things out. Me to my two four year old Son "Son please stop peeing on the toilet seat. Son: "Ok, Daddy " later that day. "Vlad, stop peeing on the toilet seat" Son "There was a failure to engage in a more flexible diplomacy daddy". Sounds like Harvard.

[@AngryIlluminati]

Grateful for NATO and western alliances defending democracy

[@ishrendon6435]

Youre a freaking ideologue. Stop thinking so idealistically. Democracy good and must fight for it while other systems are bad. Idk about you but democracies are very warlike just look at the US and britian. Start wars like crazy then lose in the middle east. Democracy is treated like a religion in the west. Idk why but just leave people alone and stop forcing then to try and be democracies by killing there people and pressuring them news flash it doesnt work

[@jeffperteet2327]

Is that sarcasm?

[@AngryIlluminati]

@@ishrendon6435 If you can still freely access information perhaps you should research Russia's war history. However I don't believe that search term is legal and could land you in the gulag.

[@dandondera2618]

@@ishrendon6435 "stop thinking so idealistically". Why should he?

[@lashlarue7924]

This guy should spend more time perfecting his bass guitar solos and less time bloviating about stuff he doesn't understand as well as he thinks he does.

[@wuhaninstituteofvirology]

pretty sure the harvard professor understands

[@lashlarue7924]

@@wuhaninstituteofvirology I'm an Ivy League graduate myself. I am very well acquainted with this. My original comment is and remains 100% accurate. The Harvard brand is overrated. I should know.