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Republican Putinism

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In Conservatism
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On April 5, 2022
I know that there's nothing particularly new about regimes using state power to reward supportive oligarchs and corporations while destroying opponents. But the current "global patrimonial wave" — and its relationship to democratic backsliding — tracks back not just to Orbán but, ultimately to Putin....
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The Korea Analogy

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In foreign policy , Trump-Russia , war
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On March 15, 2022
Naval Historical Center photo 96974, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 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 Putin's decision to invade Ukraine and Stalin's...

Denazification

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On March 1, 2022

Is this the "denazification" Putin has been blathering on about? Ukraine's president has aired his frustration on Twitter over the missile strike on the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre in.

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The key is to assume the worst

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In Trump-Russia
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On January 12, 2019
Basically everyone that I know with national-security experience, or even academic knowledge, was deeply disturbed about the lack of documentation of Trump's Helsinki meeting with Putin. It turns out that it's much, much worse than we feared. President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to...

Putin

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On December 18, 2014

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Although I am always skeptical of moment of journalists using moments of crisis to write of leaders, domestic or international. After all, oil is.

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