On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Richard Sakwa. He discusses the foreign policy disasters of the West following the end of the Cold War; the warnings of the past regarding the need for a pan-European security architecture where Russia is ignored, and the consequences being seen in Ukraine; how US hegemony has weakened the power of the traditional European powers such as Italy, France and Germany; Israel’s genocidal bloodbath in Gaza and the status of the ‘rules-based international system’; the new Cold War pitting the US and its allies against Russia and China; and why the second Cold War will be worse and far more intense, as well as harder to overcome.
