Why Ukraine’s success is in the US national interest

Russia has built up more than 130,000 troops along Ukraine’s borders and threatened what would be the deadliest offensive yet in its eight-year war. Now is a critical time to examine why Ukraine’s success is in the interests of the United States and its allies. What’s at stake in this crisis, what are Putin’s objectives, and what should the US do about it?

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Representative Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) provide opening remarks on US support for Ukraine. Then, Melinda Haring, deputy director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, moderates a conversation with Ambassador John Herbst, senior director at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center; Dr. Leon Aron, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Herman Pirchner, Jr., president of the American Foreign Policy Council; Dr. Alina Polyakova, president and CEO of the Center for European Policy Analysis; Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security; Jonathan Katz, senior fellow and director of Democracy Initiatives at the German Marshall Fund; Dr. Emily Channell-Justice, director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at Harvard University’s Ukrainian Research Institute; Luke Coffey, director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation; Glen Howard, president of the Jamestown Foundation; Admiral (Ret.) James G. Foggo, dean of the Center for Maritime Strategy at the Navy League of the United States;and Dr. Donald Jensen, director for Russia and Europe at the US Institute of Peace.

This event is co-sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the American Enterprise Institute, the American Foreign Policy Council, the Center for European Policy Analysis, the Center for a New American Security, the German Marshall Fund, the Harvard Ukraine Research Initiative’s Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, the Heritage Foundation, the Jamestown Foundation, and the US Institute of Peace.

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