Category: war

What Is Vladimir Putin Thinking?

By Cheryl Rofer

In war

On April 12, 2022

Vladmir Putin started this war, and he could stop it today if he chose. What he thinks is important. He’s told us what he thinks. The way Russia is conducting the war supports what he’s said. It’s easy to dismiss Putin’s screeds as historically inaccurate and a bizarre reading of current events. They are. But […]

russia , war

Reading Material On Putin’s War

By Cheryl Rofer

On April 6, 2022

There are a lot of bad takes coming out on the war. Two documents provide the background necessary to evaluate them. Masha Gessen talks about how authoritarianism works in Russia in this extended inte

foreign policy , Trump-Russia , war

The Korea Analogy

By Dan Nexon

On March 15, 2022

Paul’s post about David Remnick’s interview of Stephen Kotkin reminds me of another interview that Kotkin recorded in February. In that earlier interview, Kotkin draws an analogy between P

David French & the Obama Hiroshima Drama

By Shakezula

In war

On May 28, 2016

Anyone familiar with David French (the NR scribbler, not the playwright) will be non-surprised to learn that President Obama’s speech at Hiroshima upset him a great deal. Apparently French thinks Obama should have reminded the people of Japan that during WWII they were a nation of blood-thirsty maniacs who were at least as bad as […]

afghanistan , algeria , Iraq , japan , soviet union , war

Buying Our Way Out of Our Bluff

By Robert Farley

On March 7, 2007

Kingdaddy makes an interesting comparison: If you look at Japan then, and the United States now, you might see some familiar faces. A determined faction of aggrieved nationalists, having gambled the n