Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2024

TGIF: The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?

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Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of c...
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Friday, April 22, 2022

TGIF: NATO and Collective Insecurity

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Collective security, the official goal of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, seems plausible on its face. A group of nations oste...
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Friday, April 15, 2022

TGIF: Shades of Gray in the Russia-Ukraine War

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If you're looking for morality tales -- clashes between the clearly good and the clearly bad -- I suggest you look elsewhere than the ge...
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Friday, April 01, 2022

TGIF: Joe Biden, What the Hell?

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What's going on with Joe Biden? Is he oblivious to the fact that Russia has about as many strategic nuclear weapons as the United States...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Biden Puts His Foot in It Again

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People like Joe Biden never learn from history and never think long-term. It's the double whammy. By declaring that Vladimir Putin must ...
Monday, March 21, 2022

Disparity

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Thursday, March 17, 2022

The Rotten Case for Sanctions

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Now's a good time to read (or reread) Gary Chartier's 2019 article "The Case for Sanctions Fails at Every Turn."
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Only People Threatened by Russia May Bear Arms

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Pundits and politicians who routinely deny that Americans have the natural right to keep and bear arms nevertheless are thrilled by the scen...
Friday, March 11, 2022

TGIF: Russia in Ukraine: Cui Bono?

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I don't know if the U.S. foreign-policy elite wanted Russia to invade Ukraine -- an argument could be made for the affirmative -- but I...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

American Infallibility

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Beneath the widespread stubborn American refusal to understand the Russian government's motives for its condemnable invasion of Ukraine ...
Friday, March 04, 2022

TGIF: When History Begins - Russia, Ukraine & the US

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Contrary to what hypocritical U.S. rulers and their loyal mass media suggest, two propositions can both be -- and indeed are -- true: that R...
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Sunday, February 27, 2022

Don't Let the US Foreign Policy Elite Off the Hook

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It would be unwise in the extreme to let our horror at Putin's invasion of Ukraine to permit us to forget the many ways in which the U....
Thursday, February 24, 2022

Change of Pace

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It's certainly a change to have a major country other than the United States committing an invasion.

Damn!

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Vladimir Putin's invasion and bombing of Ukraine deserve the condemnation of all decent people. Regardless of what has been going on ove...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Why Provoke Putin?

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No one I know who criticizes America's post-Cold War policy toward Russia -- including the U.S. position on Ukraine -- thinks Vladimir P...
Friday, December 10, 2021

TGIF: Joe Biden, Let's Not Go to War with Russia

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Here's a good idea: let's not go to war against Russia. Let's not even rattle a saber at Russia (or China, for that matter) beca...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Stephen F. Cohen: A Rare Voice of Sanity Gone

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One of the saddest pieces of news is the death of Stephen F. Cohen at age 81. Cohen, who taught at Princeton and NYU, was an eminent scholar...
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Friday, July 03, 2020

It's Beginning to Make Sense

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So now, if Trump says he's going to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, he'll be accused of turning tail before the Russians. I w...

Regarding the Latest in Russophobia

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I might believe the latest Russia story (about bounties for American scalps in Afghanistan) when I see a headline like this: Russian Fiscal ...
Friday, December 07, 2018

TGIF: War Over Ukraine?

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Who wants to go to war against Russia in defense of Ukraine over the Kerch Strait, which lies between the Black and Azov seas and betw...
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