Harvard Prof: Be Glad It's Putin | Tom Woods Show #2808

Dr. Vladimir Brovkin (my professor of Russian history at Harvard) and Scott Horton discuss the current state of Russia/Ukraine, the likely outcome, and how we'll get there. Brovkin, author of From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its Identity, 1913–2023, explains how Russians themselves see the war, why the "Putin is Hitler" comparison collapses once you look at what Ukraine could have kept in April 2022, and why he believes the West threw away the one real chance to bring Russia into the European order in the 1990s. He also lays out what Putin is actually demanding: not the annexation of Ukraine, but Novorossiya, a friendly government in place of the current one, and a new collective security architecture in Europe to replace NATO. Horton walks through the thesis of Provoked — the Wolfowitz Doctrine, the more than 20 documented reassurances to Moscow that were then broken, and why the "lessons of Versailles" that rebuilt Germany and Japan after World War II were never applied to Russia after the Cold War. He also takes the obvious charge head-on: that this is just excusing Russian aggression, and answers whether Wesley Clark has ever made a point that complica…