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Ukraine: A Disaster of Our Own Making
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- Heroes Behind Headlines
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- Aug 3, 2026
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- 4012
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Summary
Our guest today is geopolitical analyst and bestselling author Brandon Weichert to talk about his recent book, A Disaster of Our Own Making: How the West Lost Ukraine which is a devastating critique of US policy failure in Ukraine. For 30 years, a succession of Russian leaders from Mikhail Gorbachev to Boris Yeltsin to Vladimir Putin warned the West that NATO’s expansion into territories bordering Russian, especially Ukraine would trigger a violent response from Moscow. But the West didn’t li...