STREAMING VIDEO
1 Class Session

In a single 3-hour session, this live multimedia webinar presents a comprehensive explanation of the origins, conduct, and geopolitical significance of the war in Ukraine.

Unlike other publicly available accounts of the war, this course examines and weighs the various competing interpretations of the conflict—including those put forward by Western governments and media, the Russian government and media, and Western dissident opponents of NATO support for Ukraine—and offer a thorough and easily accessible summary of the most important event of the present era.

We cover the history of the US relationship with Ukrainian nationalists through the Cold War, the fall of the USSR and Ukraine independence, the US and NATO’s opposition to the Putin regime, the CIA’s involvement in pro-Western and anti-Russian movements from the Orange Revolution to the Maidan Uprising, the separatist movements and civil wars in the Donbas and Crimea, Ukraine’s post-2014 military buildup, the emergence of neo-Nazis in the Ukraine military and politics, Putin’s policies toward NATO and the European Union, the strategy and conduct of the Special Military Operation, US and European financial and military support for Ukraine, Zelensky’s leadership, the role of conscripts, mercenaries, foreign fighters, and the Wagner Group, the propaganda war, the Ukraine counteroffensives and the fall of Bakhmut, and the rise of BRICS and a multipolar world order.

By the end of the course students will be equipped to engage with confidence in any discussion on the war in Ukraine.

To access this streaming video course, you may purchase it individually for $45 or join Unregistered Academy.