Can the Cold War past tell us where the war is going? A conversation with an historian Part 1

History in the Making: The War in Ukraine

How and when will the war in Ukraine end? Can history teach us any lessons where this war is going?
The clear answer to all of this is that we indeed can find useful analogies in the Cold War to understand where this current war is going and predict its future. US foreign policy towards Moscow during the Cold War proves to be highly instructive to understand how current US foreign policy will develop.
To dive into this and understand the future of this war by looking at the past, I had the pleasure of speaking with my former professor from Johns Hopkins SAIS, John Harper, an expert on US Foreign Policy and the Cold War. We discuss the development of the US policy of containment of Soviet Union after World War II, comparing that political era to today, and finally predicting where US policy is going in the future. Professor Harper gives his thoughts of what US policy would look like under Trump or under Harris and what it will mean for support for Ukraine, Ukraine in NATO, and how the war ends.
Professor Harper is an expert on US Foreign Policy and the Cold War, having written 4 books related to the Cold War and teaches a course at SAIS titled American Foreign Policy Since World War II. Originally from the US, he lives and teaches in Bologna, Italy.
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