Episodes
![Matters Of Policy & Politics: Ukraine and Russia: Empires, Genocide and a “Greatest Generation” | Bill Whalen and Norman Naimark | Hoover Institution](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/2797467/Matters-of-Policy-_-Politics_1400px8qyl6_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
Thursday Oct 05, 2023
The Russia-Ukraine war is less about resources and more about empire, history, and two nations’ self-conceptions. Or so contends Norman Naimark, a Hoover Institution senior fellow and Stanford University history professor, who discusses how past and present cruelties involving the two combatants – common heritage, absorption, suppression and genocide, Vladimir Putin’s mindset, and the Ukrainian people’s resilience – factor into the past 19 months of fighting.
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