Dare I Disagree With David Ignatius?
Dare I Disagree With David Ignatius? In today’s Washington Post (Dec. 31 ), intel columnist David Ignatius had a ten question multiple choice quiz about what will happen in 2022. He provided his own...
View ArticleCan Ukraine Become A New Austria?
Can Ukraine Become A New Austria? In this Sunday’s Washington Post, columnist David von Drehle suggests that a way out of the difficult Russia/Ukraine situation would be for Ukraine to become like...
View ArticleWar Comes to Kyiv
War Comes to Kyiv | The New Yorker, Joshua Yaffa Interesting article that showed up in my inbox. This is a copy and paste ot it with minor editing. If you follow the link, there are other short...
View ArticleFascist Traditionalism And Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine
Fascist Traditionalism And Putin’s Invasion Of Ukraine About a half-century ago I was urged by my oldest friend to read a book by Fritjof Schuon (1907-1998) written in 1953, The Transcendental Unity...
View ArticleRussian logistics
I should stop posting about Ukraine, since I have no expertise and not much ability to judge the credibility of things I read. But I keep reading and want to share some twitter threads about Russian...
View ArticleWhy Is Germany Increasing Defence Spending ?
Recently, we have learned that the Russian military is vastly less capable than anyone imagined. Also, in three whole weeks, Ukrainians have markedly reduced the capabilities of the Russian military....
View ArticleLearning from History? Questions from a Back Bencher
Commenter and Blogger Dale Coberly I have been reading William Manchester’s biography of Winston Churchill. I do not know how reliable Manchester is, but I think I have learned more about a couple of...
View ArticleA Deadline Passes and Stalin Is Exchanged For Peter The Great
A Deadline Passes And Stalin Is Exchanged For Peter The Great, Barkley Rosser, Econospeak I am not all that much into posting about the ups and downs of the Special Operation in Ukraine, but it seems...
View ArticleMark Hertling gives us a lesson in charitable interpretation
Mark Hertling is one of the people I follow on Ukraine. He is a staunch advocate for arming Ukraine, but he recently had a tweet thread defending what some see as the overly cautious and slow approach...
View ArticleManaging escalation risk and arming Ukraine
The desire to manage escalation risk – especially the risk of a nuclear attack – has clearly led the United States to withhold weapons from Ukraine. We may also be slow-walking delivery of weapons or...
View ArticleHow does the war in Ukraine end?
Thinking about the election is depressing and anxiety provoking, so let’s focus on situation in Ukraine. Progressive Democrats ask Biden to negotiate with Putin This letter to Biden from some members...
View ArticleAre North Korean Workers Going To Annexed Portions Of Ukraine?
Are North Korean Workers Going To Annexed Portions Of Ukraine? Maybe. An October 21 report in NK Daily says so, with further speculation on this matter on blogs that cover North Korea. Supposedly Kim...
View ArticleDemocratic politics and the multiple audience problem: the case of Ukraine
One reason politics is so hard is that our words are often heard by different audiences, and a message that is well-calibrated for one type of listener may work poorly for listeners with different...
View ArticleThe making of modern Ukraine
For most of my adult life, I’ve learned history almost exclusively by reading books. I took American and World history in high school and two quarters of American history in college, but after that, I...
View ArticleWar and Punishment
I just finished “War and Punishment: The story of Russian oppression and Ukranian resistance” by Mikhail Zygar. I’ve read several books on Russian and Ukranian history written by historians. Zygar...
View ArticleUkraine update
The Yale historian Timothy Snyder first came to my attention in a footnote of an article in The New York Review of Books. The footnote gave a link to a series of 23 online lectures on the history of...
View ArticleAt least today, things are looking up for the Democrats
Haley Nikki Haley is staying in the race for the Republican nomination, at least for now. Why? If she only cares about becoming president, this year could be her best shot even with Trump way...
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