Ambassador Vesko Garcević comments on the War in Ukraine in the Boston Globe
Ambassador Vesko Garcević, Professor at Boston University’s Pardee School of Global Studies, was quoted in a Boston Globe Newsletter article marking three years since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. You can read the full article titled It’s a different era’ for Russia’s war in Ukraine here.
Garčević’s point that “the context in which this war is taking place” has changed with President Trump in the White House and the conclusion that “we are in a different era” was used for the article headline.
Professor Garčević argues that “in an exhaustive war for both sides, but more exhaustive for Ukraine, ‘by holding peace talks that exclude Ukraine, Trump has validated Russia’s claim that the war was a defensive act against an aggressive West, not an unprovoked attack on a sovereign neighbor. As the negotiations progress”, he added, “the US is likely to put pressure not on an aggressor, but on a victim.”
Ambassador Vesko Garčević dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years during his diplomatic career. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He was Montenegro’s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as Montenegro’s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School. Learn more about Ambassador Garčević on his faculty profile.