This enlightening webinar with George Beebe, director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute, began with the sobering observation that we do better to understand the Ukraine War and the current moment as more analogous to the months leading up to World War I than the Manichean forces at play during World War II. Beebe provided background to the war, tracing some of its roots to NATO expansion and to the U, S.-NATO Kosovo War fought against Serbia without U.N. authorization. Beebe urged diplomacy and a difficult compromise to end the war, which will also require steps toward creating a new security architecture for Europe.
