March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—In a useful article published March 18 in Washington, D.C.’s The Hill (much read in Congress), University of Texas Professor Alan J. Kuperman (specialty: military strategy and conflict management) cut through the Establishment media narrative that Russia’s military action in Ukraine was “unprovoked.” Kuperman, an aide to leading Democrats before beginning his academic career, makes clear he is no fan of either Presidents Trump or Putin. “I rarely agree with President Trump,” he writes, “but his latest recent controversial statements about Ukraine are mostly true.” Ukrainians, Volodymyr Zelenskyy specifically, and Joe Biden “bear significant responsibility for the outbreak and perpetuation of war in Ukraine.”
Kuperman identifies three key points which demonstrate that point.
First, it was “Ukrainian right-wing militants who started the violence in 2014 that provoked Russia’s initial invasion of the country’s southeast including Crimea.” That fact “has been recently documented by overwhelming forensic evidence, and affirmed even by a Kyiv court,” he writes, reminding how the Maidan protests had been resolved before those militants began their shooting.
