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Putin — Putler? Readers Respond
Headlines hit with the frequency of missiles. Russia’s war against Ukraine grinds on despite the Trump administration’s efforts at obtaining a peace favorable to Russia’s interests. Russia pounded Kyiv with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 70 and smashing buildings in the biggest attack on the Ukrainian capital this…
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Putin — Or Is It Putler?
Leon Aron, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War, offered this assessment of Putin’s motives and US blind spots in an April 15 opinion piece published at POLITICO: The truth that has so far eluded Trump and his administration is that…
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North Korea, Russia, and History
David R. Kotok, November 24, 2024 (The following was first published on The Kotok Report website and via LISTSERV. For details, visit https://kotokreport.com/.) On Sunday, October 27, 2024, I cited the evolution of history in the WW2 era, in the 1930s and the 1940s, and got a lot of responses (“A History Lesson?” https://kotokreport.com/a-history-lesson/). We…