Making Sense of the Ukraine Crisis

On Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Gerard Toal, professor of international affairs at Virginia Tech, joined the Mershon Center to provide a thick geopolitical description of the Ukraine crisis and illustrate how it is a multiscalar conflict that entangles low intensity war in the Donbas, national identity conflict between Kyiv and Moscow, energy infrastructure and climate, as well as great power perceptions of geo-strategic encroachment. Toal offered some arguments as to why Russia's leadership decided to initiate the threat of invasion now, and what are its likely consequences.