If Putin is all evil, why did he do the following (as described by Jack Matlock, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991) and why did we rebuff him? “After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia, President Putin was…
[Editor’s Note: If nothing else, at least listen to the first 25 minutes of this interview with Professor John Mearsheimer, in which he explains the most important context for the Ukraine crisis. He emphasizes that no one was accusing Putin of expansionist ambitions before February 22nd of 2014, the date on which a US-influenced…
BRYCE GREENE Reprinted from FAIR Under a Creative Commons License Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can fairly be called many things, but “unprovoked” (Roll Call, 2/24/22) is not one of them. Many governments and media figures are rightly condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine as an act of aggression and a violation…
BY ANDREW BACEVICH Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Dear Mr. President: I send greetings from the other side — and no, I don’t mean the other side of the aisle. I refer to the place where old politicians go to make amends for their sins. Apart from our shared Catholicism and affinity for…
Welcome to the American Century Even If It Is a Hell on Earth BY TOM ENGELHARDT Reprinted from TomDispatch.com with permission of the author On February 17, 1941, less than 10 months before the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor and the U.S. found itself in a global war, Henry Luce, in an…