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Arguments for American responsibility for the war in Ukraine tend to give undue credit to Russian narratives. An essay in The American Conservative is a case in point.
Characterizations of Gorbachev as a “quintessential apparatchik” or a blood-stained “totalitarian” who hadn’t sought “to end tyranny” and could only imagine Russia as “an empire” are truly bizarre—and tell us more about the present biases of their authors than they do about the past dramas of perestroika and the Cold War’s end.
WHEN I studied Russian history it was with the feeling of someone who had arrived much too late at the party. The drinks had been drunk, the…
The US has deliberately baited the Chinese dragon over Taiwan.