{"id":2703902,"date":"2022-02-28T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=2703902"},"modified":"2022-02-28T14:36:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T19:36:48","slug":"why-is-putin-invading-ukraine-2703902","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/why-is-putin-invading-ukraine-2703902\/","title":{"rendered":"What does Putin want from the Ukraine invasion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An expert on international conflicts says Ukraine&#8217;s fate might be tied to Putin&#8217;s survival.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When shooting starts, things get out of hand. That&#8217;s important to recognize,&#8221; says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/psc\/people\/view.php?fid=14\">Hein Goemans<\/a>, a professor of political science at the University of Rochester, who is an expert on international conflicts, territorial disputes, why countries go to war, and how wars end.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I study war because war is awful; it&#8217;s truly terrible.&#8221; Thousands of Ukrainian civilians, and Ukrainian soldiers in the trenches, he notes, are going to die as a result of missiles and artillery fire without ever seeing any Russian soldiers.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ukraine-nato-allies-russia-630x454.jpg\" alt=\"A map of Europe shows the NATO allies on one side of Ukraine and Russia on the other\" width=\"630\" height=\"454\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of NATO allies. (Credit: Michael Osadciw\/U. Rochester)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;War brings massive casualties, destruction, and costs for everybody concerned. We should not forget those people who are fighting and the costs they are willing to shoulder. Many of them will die because of Putin&#8217;s folly,&#8221; says Goemans, who is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691049441\/war-and-punishment\"><em>War and Punishment<\/em><\/a> (Princeton University Press, 2000) and the coauthor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/leaders-and-international-conflict\/2B2676A409304C47EAA8B4822EFF1217#fndtn-information\"><em>Leaders and International Conflict<\/em><\/a> (Cambridge University Press, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Here, Goemans warns that a Russian victory\u2014but also a Russian defeat or stalemate\u2014could have dramatically bad consequences for the West, and indeed the whole world:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expert on international conflicts says Ukraine&#8217;s fate might be tied to Putin&#8217;s survival. &#8220;When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8352,"featured_media":2703932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[879,1426,2032,14802],"class_list":["post-2703902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-society-culture","tag-geopolitics","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-wars","post_format-post-format-quote","university-university-of-rochester"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What does Putin want from the Ukraine invasion? - 糖心视频<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Why is Russia invading Ukraine? 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