Into Europe: With Russian troops building up at the Ukrainian border and tensions flaring high between the US, NATO and Russia, we can ask how the situation got to where it is: How did Russia lose Ukraine?

Looking into the history of the two countries and the politics of the past 15 years including the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan Revolution, look into Ukraine's Western flip.


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Music:
Two States of Mind by Max H
Circularity by Brianna Tam
Kims Variation by Michele Nobler
Moments in Time by Tristan Barton

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For further reading about NATO and Russia:
Deal or No Deal? The End of the Cold War and the U.S. Offer to Limit NATO Expansion by Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

Other sources of interest:
https://www.rt.com/russia/543894-suspension-gas-transit-germany/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/08/politics/us-ukraine-security-assistance-military-training/index.html
https://www.rt.com/russia/543861-us-pmc-chemical-provocation-ukraine/
https://russian.rt.com/opinion/922636-babickii-ukraina-donbass-obostrenie
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/01/satellite-russia-ukraine-military-518337
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-donetsk-luhansk-/31479593.html
https://www.dw.com/en/russian-court-says-countrys-soldiers-stationed-in-ukraine/a-60153034
https://ecfr.eu/publication/waves-of-ambition-russias-military-build-up-in-crimea-and-the-black-sea/#introduction
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/22/russia-accuses-west-of-fuelling-hysteria-over-ukraine-tensions
https://www.ft.com/content/aa51e2fe-3da1-47cb-aa88-61f92e954e41
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/04/us/us-intelligence-russia-military-ukraine.html
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/nato/1790818/?lang=en
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/23/putin-accuses-west-coming-with-missiles-doorstep
https://tass.com/world/1379343
https://tass.com/defense/1378389
https://tass.com/pressreview/1378357
https://tass.com/world/1378719
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181
https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-oliver-stone-europe-russia-ukraine-3fe3ff2299994fae97825381765b831c
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/12/02/russia-ukraine-putin-policy-523606