Russia - Ukraine War: Was It Inevitable?
By Prof. Dr. Sedat LACINER - Contrary to his past practices, President Vladimir Putin sent Russian tanks and planes into Ukraine at a speed that no one expected and almost without any preliminary mental preparation and softening the international public opinion; attempted to brutally invade or even destroy a sovereign country. I'm sure Putin and his advisers don't see it that way, and I'm sure they wholeheartedly believe they are right, their actions seem legitimate and legal to them. However, there are very few people in the world who see the Ukraine War from Putin 's point of view, and it would be unrealistic to attribute this to Western propaganda alone. The Western world knew that Putin was authoritarian and unreliable, especially in domestic politics but he has never been considered as an unpredictable or crazy in international relations. On the contrary, the European Union (EU) and the US addressed Putin 's Russia on many issues and saw it as a pa...