A decade ago, when historians were revisiting the origins of the First World War, the term “sleepwalking” became very trendy in describing how divergent factors and self-interested actors tangled together to produce one of the biggest catastrophes in human history.
As the world enters yet another period of global strife, are we still somnambulating, or are we being deliberately led into an abyss?
To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Benjamin Abelow, author of How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How US and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe.