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I would not trust Bret Stephens with advice on Russia, seeing that he knows as much about Russia as I do about molecular physics. Bret Stephens advised by Bill Browder

So, a quick take on Putin's long-delayed article on WWII, published (omg) by the National Interest: https://nationalinterest.org/feature/vladimir-putin-real-lessons-75th-anniversary-world-war-ii-162982. The overall conclusion is of cour

Fascinated by culture wars raging around @MarkGaleotti's bear in a crown for several days now. (Great for marketing!) One side says that the bear & the subtitle ("from the pagans

Just wanted to put these two snippets out here. One - Kissinger's recollection of his conversation with Brezhnev, May 1973. Brezhnev: "Look, you will be our partners, you and we

OK, I promise this is my last post about NATO history today (I do have a life outside reading documents!) But I just have to write about this because of

The testimony this tweet links to is completely off the rails. But my critique would be different from most who see the author Daniel Tobin err in that he projects

Reading about the 1999 Kosovo crisis, and Russia's position on NATO airstrikes. Absolutely fascinating stuff. Here, for instance, we have a statement by @Respublicanez, a leading critic of Putin's regime.

People have asked to explain what I find problematic about this article. I won't attempt an exhaustive review here since the piece is just too long for this and there

Reading an unpublished manuscript by a brilliant young historian who will definitely rise to stardom. Makes me think: what are the ingredients that make brilliant historians? Here's my list, from

Re-reading the records of the 1945 Potsdam Conference. One thing that strikes me is how the Soviets defended their gains in E. Europe. When the Americans refused to recognise the

China-Russia relations have been in the news a lot in recent months. There is a sense that perhaps Moscow and Beijing are moving towards an alliance. Some see them already

Reading Gregory Feifer's The Great Gamble: the Soviet War ini Afghanistan, to which I have come somewhat belatedly, after having myself worked through all the key sources. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Gamble-Soviet-War-Afghanistan/dp/B001R1VDKM/.