Author: Jacob Gamble

As President Biden announced sanctions against Russia on Tuesday for sending troops into Eastern Ukraine, a University of South Carolina history professor worried that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions may destabilize Eastern Europe.

“The worst-case scenario is for the U.S. is the same as the worst-case scenario for NATO,” said Carol Harrison, a European history professor at the University of South Carolina. “Which is that, you know, the post-Cold War security structure that was set up 30 years ago collapses, and that’s really disturbing.”