…only Russian who thinks that Putin’s actions aren’t insane. I think it is important to understand war fever, but mainly I agree that the war fever epidemic is currently in…

…done a very good job navigating this terrible crisis, but he did err in calling Putin a war criminal and saying he cannot remain in power.  Putin is a war…

Not quite star wars yet. The past and old age of warfare is changing as we watch the conflict in the Ukraine between one ill equipped small defender and the…

…for American democracy than many seem to be. Giving Americans a foreign adversary will distract attention from our never-ending culture war squabbles.  Of course, using war to distract attention from…

In which I parse and war-game the Trump “special master” litigation And now, for something completely different .. ..  While I have zero special knowledge about Federal criminal procedure, I…

…after World War I, however, that the day was expanded to honor those who have died in all American wars. In 1971, Memorial Day was declared a national holiday by…

…readmit them to full standing in the Union. Still led by the very men who had organized the Confederacy and made war on the United States.  Northern Republican lawmakers refused….

I just finished “War and Punishment: The story of Russian oppression and Ukranian resistance” by Mikhail Zygar. I’ve read several books on Russian and Ukranian history written by historians. Zygar…

…movement. Still, it took another war effort, that of World War I, which the U.S. entered in 1917, to light a fire under the lawmakers whose votes would be necessary…

…also has a subscription-only Substack blog to which I subscribe. Snyder travels frequently to Ukraine these days, and his latest Substack article is posted from Kyiv. As the war grinds…