Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Ukraine

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While Shirk acknowledges the relevance of other countries' overreach, the emphasis on American foreign policy might limit the book's applicability for readers seeking a more global perspective.

Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin and Russia’s War Against

If we expect to understand how to respond to the challenges America faces in the coming decades, we must educate ourselves. Yet the risk of a military clash between the US and China has grown markedly over the past two decades. Chapter 2 (“And Moscow is Silent”) gives a brief biography of Putin that largely aligns with the conventional Western interpretation. The author details the development of Russian nationalist attitudes from the fall of the Soviet Union and up the invasion.Using the accounts of current and former insiders from the Kremlin and its propaganda machine, the testimony of captured Russian soldiers and on-the-ground reporting from Russia and Ukraine, Overreach tells the story not only of the war’s causes but how the first six months unfolded. The bilateral relationship has fallen apart, resulting in what China fears most: containment by the United States and its allies. The most eloquent manner of reading and of speaking, is the most easy of attainment, if sought for through the proper channel; for it is as simple as it is natural. Owen Matthews has no doubt that the war in Ukraine is one of these, declaring in the introduction to Overreach that “The world’s security architecture, food and energy supply, balance of military power and alliances will be altered by [the war] forever”.

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transitive, intransitive , figuratively ) To do something beyond an appropriate limit, or beyond one's ability.Surprisingly, this process of overreach, she argues, began under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s predecessor, the more moderate Hu Jintao. Putin is totally weakened: perhaps it would be the best result for the West, the bad thing is that Russia is leaving more and more of the international concert and this is bad for the world in general and especially for the Russians. Russia loses the war: Putin can be removed and assassinated, his successor will surely be much worse.

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The book provides evidence that, contrary to the views of some other analysts, the derailment of China's peaceful rise began before Xi Jinping took office, starting under Hu Jintao's model of collective leadership.The few still willing to talk often did so while drowning their sorrows in bars - contemplating a future in a pariah nation, and envying even Ukrainian refugees. However, I think this book is certainly very US-centered, and would have like to heard the perspective on how other countries around the world view China, not how the US THINKS they view China. John Nicholson Navin, “Vices of the Horse”, in Navin’s Veterinary Practice: Or Explanatory Horse Doctor.

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Fascinating but a handful of details of history that are obfuscated in this book but clearly highlighted and detailed in other books left me wondering ‘Why? While the diminutive Deng Xiaoping began a process of decentralizing China’s government to prevent the concentration of power in the hands of a charismatic leader in the future, the men who followed him turned the bureaucracy into a self-serving mosh pit of corruption and inertia.In this sobering, penetrating, and illuminating book, one of the world's leading experts looks not just at how things got to this point but what lies ahead, and how it could affect us all. After 27 years as a Moscow correspondent, Spectator journalist Owen Matthews found his contacts book shrinking within days of Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Dubcek’s reforms were snubbed out when Warsaw Pact countries answered with columns of Russian tanks. Overall, I believe this book had some valuable arguments and unveiled some unappreciated intricacies of Chinese politics.