Take a seat and get ready to learn from one of the foremost experts on Ukraine and its history. In this lecture, Timothy Snyder goes into history and what he calls deep geography to explain why so many people got so many things so wrong about this war. Highly informative. (The lecture is part of an entire class. All lectures are made available on YouTube.)

From Weekly Filet #410, in September 2022.

Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine

Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine

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