Few people in Australia will disagree with John Lyons that the war in Ukraine is ‘morally unambiguous’ and that the Ukrainian people have right on their side. A Bunker in Kyiv tells how they have mobilised en masse, volunteering to serve not only on the battlefront and in defence production but also in support roles across the economic and social spectrum. As for their enemies, Ukrainians have come to view Russians solely as ‘invaders, not people’. For Lyons, the conflict is a simple one between good and evil, and his underlying message is that both morality and self-interest dictate that the international community should step up its support for Kyiv.
A Bunker in Kyiv: The astonishing story of the people’s army defying Putin by John Lyons with Sylvie Le Clezio
ABC Books, $34.99 pb, 311 pp
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https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/who-caused-the-ukraine-war
The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine by Ivan Katchanovski (Palgrave Macmillan, Open Access, 2024), a Ukrainian and Canadian political scientist
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4943693
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