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The Ukraine War’s Real Backstory: 1945 to 2025 in One Conversation | Prof. Roger Markwick

Episode 40 just landed with Prof. Roger Markwick (Honorary Professor of Modern European History, University of Newcastle) The Australian academic who refuses to parrot the “unprovoked aggression” fairy tale explains, calmly and with receipts:

  • why the war in Ukraine actually started in 2014, not 2022

  • the Odessa Trade Union House massacre of 2 May 2014 and why Australia’s media memory-holed it

  • the eight-year Donbass war (14,000+ dead) that was raging long before the 2022 invasion

  • how a TV comedian bankrolled by an oligarch became the West’s sainted wartime leader

  • NATO’s broken post-Cold War promises and the sabotaged Minsk agreements

  • Eurasianism, Alexander Dugin, and why the West turned a marginal thinker into Putin’s Rasputin

If you’re tired of being told “the history started on 24 February 2022”, this is the two-hour masterclass Australian campuses won’t let you attend.

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