The tragedy in Ukraine is why Snippet took a short pause earlier this week.
Here are a few interesting articles on how and why we got where we are today.
This is an excellent, well documented piece from Spiegel on the subject of NATO’s eastward expansion. Did the West cheat? As usual – it is complicated.
This was a good talk by the brilliant Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner recorded three years ago (2018), who tried to give a point of view not well expressed in Western press. The whole thing is worth a listen.
The five books series is always great on any topic and this one on Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy, professor at Harvard in Ukrainian History is worth a read.
This was also an interesting read on the history of Ukraine and Bolshevism and the idea of a nation.
