“It takes two mirrors for the correct image of one’s self” (Diary of Patricia Highsmith, 1968). By now we are all aware of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and what has happened to our world. Several commentators have proposed that the reason for the invasion was the rapid decline in international liberalism – Edward Luce and John Mearsheimer have written a great deal on this. After the Berlin Wall collapsed, there was relief and euphoria that the world had entered a new phase in history. Francis Fukuyama, like Karl Marx, was a student of Georg Hegel and argued that history was an evolution from one spirit of ideas to the other. For Fukuyama, liberalism had triumphed over totalitarianism. Fukuyama saw the spread of democracies finally gain a hold.
putin s war. and pc news is rough sanchez in moscow. thank you for starting us off. let s continue with william taylor, he s a former ambassador to ukraine and vice president for a russia europe at the institute of peace. and nina crushable, she s a professor of international affairs of the new school in great granddaughter to former soviet premier, nikita khrushchev. i can t think of a better too to have this conversation. with ambassador taylor, i want to start with you, what s significant development today, both on the economic and military front. germany announced that it would join the list of countries sending military assistance to ukraine. it is a historical shift for this country that has tried to remain at least militarily on the sidelines when it comes to confrontations like this. it has had a long-standing policy of never sending weapons to conflict zones, but that has changed it seems. this has been critical of the west response to russia s aggression. it is ukraine, from