Overreach. The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine

Политика

Автор: Мэтьюз Оуэн

Год: 2022

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This book was mostly written in Moscow and Kyiv during the course of the first six months of the war. It’s not, therefore, the story of the war but a first draft of the history of how the war began – and how the conflict moved from Russia’s blitzkrieg through stalemate to Ukrainian counter-offensive. My focus is on the most compelling mystery at the heart of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine: how did the idea of violently carving out a Greater Russia, backed up by mystical Orthodox nationalism, travel from the marginal fringes of Russian politics to become official Kremlin policy? How and why did Putin decide to throw decades of carefully constructed macroeconomics and diplomacy out of the window and launch a war so reckless and risky that the full details were kept even from the majority of his most senior ministers right up until the very moment of the invasion? Who were the dogs fighting under the carpet – as Churchill memorably once described Kremlin infighting – who battled for and won Putin’s ear, heart and mind? And most importantly, what was the true reason that Putin decided to go to war?