Profs & Pints DC: To End the War in Ukraine

Profs and Pints DC presents: “To End the War in Ukraine,” on a path to peace and what it might mean for Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, with Michael Kimmage, director of the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, former U.S. State Department planner for Ukraine and Russia, and author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

President Donald Trump has called for an end to the war in Ukraine, a conflict which has unsettled European security, spread instability around the world, resulted in countless deaths, and now is entering its fourth year. But what might a cessation of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine look like?

Join Dr. Michael Kimmage, a former Catholic University history professor who now directs a think tank focused on Russia and Ukraine, for a discussion of the subject of war termination and an exploration of how the conflict over Ukraine might end.

He’ll give a recap of what has happened militarily since Russia invaded Ukraine, summarizing a back-and-forth in which both nations at times have appeared on the verge of victory only to have their fighting grind on.

He’ll take a hard look at our nation’s policy toward the war, exploring what it is that the United States has been trying to achieve, how the Biden and Trump administrations have differed on this, and the prospects of the United States actually brokering a deal that ends the conflict.

He’ll conclude with a few thoughts about what it would mean to not just end the war but win the peace, drawing upon the history of the end of phases of World War I and World War II to frame where we stand in the present moment. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)

Image: A Mariupol maternity and children’s hospital bombed by Russia in March of 2022 (Ministry of Defense of Ukraine / armyinform.com.ua ).