And my background is I have an undergraduate degree in European History from the University of Pennsylvania. And for the vast majority of Chinese and Turks, Western support for Ukraine is motivated by reasons other than a defence of Ukraine’s territorial integrity or of its democracy. S., and the last sentence is “follow updates on this visit, which comes amid news that Russians have been hunting down, torturing and killing Ukrainians whose names are on lists. The programme also supports EU decision-makers work on a unified and coherent policy to address the challenges resulting from Russia’s full scale-invasion of Ukraine. India is also, as noted, the only CITRUS country where the prevailing opinion is that the US (28 per cent) and Europe (36 per cent) are mostly supporting Ukraine to defend it as a democracy – this may reflect India’s sense of itself as the world’s largest democracy.

I have a medical degree — an MD degree — from the Yale University School of Medicine, and years ago I worked in Washington, D. One conundrum has been that, despite anticipating a full cyber war, major Russian attacks upon Ukraine infrastructure have largely failed to materialize.

If one wanted to use a loaded term, I could say there’s an awful lot of propaganda, wherein the mainstream media is functioning to a good extent as a propaganda wing of the Washington foreign policy elite. This short, very readable book explains the history, the thought processes of American leaders and the possible disastrous ultimate outcome of America's provocations and Putin's invasion. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Harkening back to the days when people with strong opinions would simply print them and hand them out to as many people as possible, “ How the West Brought War to Ukraine” is designed to be short, approachable and very much to the point. Other results in our poll further suggest that people in China, India, and Turkiye are sceptical of claims about defending democracy. In China, the poll included panellists from Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen agglomerations only.But people in those countries see themselves very differently: as emerging great powers that may side with the West on some issues but not on others. You can give your consent to whole categories or display further information and select certain cookies. As a UN Security Council member entrusted to maintain international peace and security, there was a sense of déjà vu with the US-led invasion of Iraq, and Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014.