US Ambassador to Soviet Union agrees with John Mearsheimer’s Assessment of Ukraine-Russia War

Jack Matlock has a talk on April 6th, 2022 with American Committee for US-Russia Accord on War in Ukraine, with Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Ambassador Jack Matlock, Nicolai Petro, Marlene Laruelle, and James W. Carden. Jack Foust Matlock Jr. (born October 1, 1929) is an American former ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, a historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991. Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. war, in the popular sense, is a conflict between political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and magnitude. Internationally considered an act of aggression, the invasion has triggered Europe’s largest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 4.3 million Ukrainians leaving the country and a quarter of the population displaced.