DEBATE: War of Attrition

Glenn Diesen - Greater Eurasia Podcast · Dec 7, 2025 · 1h 1m

I had the pleasure of debating the NATO–Russia proxy war that is destroying Ukraine. My main argument is that there is overwhelming evidence that Western leaders knew NATO expansion would trigger a security competition with Russia and revive Cold War logic, with Ukraine being the ultimate red line. Once NATO triggered the conflict by toppling Yanukovych and taking control of the new government it installed, war became largely unavoidable. The decision by NATO countries in 2022 to then suspend diplomacy and send weapons in a proxy war that Russia considers an existential threat meant that a…