What Is Wrong With Subverting Russia?

In this video I argue against US policy of subverting Putin’s Russia. Professor Kotkin proposed to undermine Putin’s regime, as he put it by all means available, because he claimed it was an illiberal regime. Here is the link to his interview I argue here that this policy is suicidal for the US, that escalation of the war in Ukraine will lead to the defeat of NATO, and a possible nuclear war, that promoting nationalist forces in Russia will bring to power forces in Russia that will be much more virulently hostile to the West than President Putin. And finally the US claim to be a liberal democracy teacching Russia how to behave sounds like an arrogant presumption. is a Russian born American historian, now retired, served as Professor of Soviet History at Harvard University, author of many books on Russian History, the latest is featured on the screen in this video: From Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin: Russia in Search of Its Identity (London: Routledge 2024) available on Amazon: Brovkin&i=stripbooks-intl-ship&crid=2OUV6E8TVS1G3&sprefix=vladimir brovkin,stripbooks-intl-ship,224&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 ’s videos are organized in several PLAY LISTS. This one is in: Post Soviet Russia Under Presidents Yeltsyn and Putin