{"id":54039,"date":"2025-06-29T15:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54039"},"modified":"2025-06-29T15:36:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:36:30","slug":"benjamin-abelow-how-the-west-brought-war-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/29\/benjamin-abelow-how-the-west-brought-war-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Abelow: How the West Brought War to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Diesen interviews Ben <span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">Abelow about his book <em>How the West Brought War to Ukraine<\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5Vnnchh4Kp0?si=RoPYRC2G_RKXtBAe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">The book can be downloaded for free (English, German, and French editions): <\/span><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"yt-core-attributed-string__link yt-core-attributed-string__link--call-to-action-color\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&amp;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbmhYOGxETmlJZ1paa1pmWS0xWEk4TlBDZy1FUXxBQ3Jtc0tuLU52amhtU1hiVFhGZDI5M3FzTk85aGtpbjk2VVZyRktySVpyb25sREFCS2trR0ZESEtucF80S1lMRHFHdEN2TUFpQjZsZ0NXOFM0b1BtTFhybHhJWEVJRksxWFJCU2MyX0ZUM1hPTlU3TjJfamNqMA&amp;q=https%3A%2F%2Fbenjaminabelow.com%2Fdownload%2F&amp;v=5Vnnchh4Kp0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/benjaminabelow.com\/download\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string yt-core-attributed-string--white-space-pre-wrap\" dir=\"auto\"><span class=\"yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color\" dir=\"auto\">A hard copy of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-West-Brought-Ukraine-Understanding\/dp\/0991076702\">can be bought on Amazon<\/a> in various languages. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Diesen interviews Ben Abelow about his book How the West Brought War to Ukraine. The book can be downloaded for free (English, German, and French editions): https:\/\/benjaminabelow.com\/download\/ A hard copy of the book can be bought on Amazon in various languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[779],"class_list":["post-54039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54042,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54039\/revisions\/54042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54039"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}