Here's that review that mentions how Scott Horton "highly recommended" Hubris. For a guy who listens to Berletic to highly recommend Hubris is simply ludicrous. The review compares Haslam's book with Horton's own book.

"I read Jonathan Haslam's "Hubris" because it was highly recommended by Scott Horton in an interview I watched on YouTube. I was reading at that time Scott Horton's book on the same subject, "Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine".
Whereas Haslam's book is short, Horton's book is very long.
I am giving Jonathan Haslam's shorter book some slack for skirting over details that Horton's longer book covered in depth. For example, Horton's book presents arguments that lead one to conclude the chemical weapon attacks in Syria attributed to Bashar al-Assaad were false flag operations, whereas in Haslam's book he simply states as a fact that they were genuine chemical weapons attacks directly ordered by al-Assad. Similarly, while Horton's book presents evidence why there is a strong case for attributing the destruction of the North Stream underwater pipeline to Joe Biden, in Haslam's book the destruction of the pipeline is not even mentioned. There are similarly contrasting conclusions in the two books concerning the late jailed presidential condidate Alexei Navalny and concerning who poisoned Alexander Litvinenko with Polonium.
Jonathan Haslem's book starts out very strong, but at the end it sort of peters out, analogous to a very long article in a newspaper that reached it's a allotted number of pages and had to end quickly.
The meat of Haslam's book, the part that made Scott Horton recommend it so highly, are Jonathan Haslam's beginning and middle portions where he explains the history of how United States politicians planned the expansion of NATO into Ukraine and into Georgia starting way back in the early 1990s.
One might think of Jonathan Haslam's book as a small red pill mixed with a hint of blue pill , while Scott Horton's book could be thought of as an immensely large, hard to swallow, pure red pill.
For those with limited time it's best to choose Jonathan Haslam's book. Ideally, read both as I did."