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00:00 Stephen Kinzer introduces Boiling Point
02:14 Why the “unprovoked” label prompted Kinzer’s research
08:02 Tracing U.S. covert involvement back to 1947
13:33 How anti-Russia thinking shaped U.S. policy
22:05 The post-Cold War chance for a shared security order
23:47 NATO expansion, electoral politics, and defense interests
32:15 Maidan and the shift in U.S. policy toward Ukraine
39:57 Alliance choice, security dilemmas, and the Mexico comparison
45:05 Kinzer’s aim: put the history before readers
46:00 “How did the poison get in the wine?”
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