It All Comes Back to NATO

It All Comes Back to NATO

When the Bush Administration announced in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would be eligible for NATO membership, I knew it was a terrible idea. Nearly two decades after the end of both the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War, expanding NATO made no sense. NATO itself made no...

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Ukraine: The Propaganda Wars

Ukraine: The Propaganda Wars

(This is a version of an RPI update to subscribers sent yesterday. Subscribe here.)The media and the war machine (or do I repeat myself?) want us to take sides in the Russo/Ukraine war. To those of us with long histories in military conflicts in which the US foreign...

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Biden’s Cuban Missile Crisis

Biden’s Cuban Missile Crisis

Joe Biden's perverse legacy, if that term even applies anymore, may well be determined in the coming weeks by his handling of events in Ukraine. He can improve it by showing restraint against the relentless neoconservative chorus. One wonders what the results of...

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