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Man Brought Tales of Soviet Dissent to the West, Dies at 84 August 21, 2024

In late spring 1968, a typed dossier was smuggled out of the Soviet Union and reached London. Filling more than a dozen pages were fact-laden accounts of repression: writers put on trial and dissidents sent to Siberian camps or psychiatric wards. ...

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Update on the War in Ukraine August 20, 2024

Two and a half years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, a former part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. The reason for the invasion was geostrategic: Moscow justifiably feared that a hostile power could invade it from the west through Ukraine and...

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The U.S. Navy Isn’t Ready for Cold War II August 15, 2024

The United States is engaged in a new Cold War confronting four aggressive and colluding adversaries—China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea—that is more complex and dangerous than the previous Cold War against the Soviet Union. The United States, along...

Why Ukraine Should Not Be on an “Irreversible Path” Into NATO August 05, 2024

If Donald Trump wins this November, with Ohio Senator JD Vance as his VP,Ukraine’s hopes of joining NATO could vanish — and that wouldn’t be a bad outcome. Given Ukraine’s minimal economic and strategic relevance to United States national interests, ...

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The Pitfalls of Historical Analogy July 04, 2024

Questions of “identity” consume the present generation more than any others past. The spirit of our age, the Zeitgeist of the early 21st century – at least in the West – is one of doubt and drift. A loss of meaning, confidence and purpose, an unmoori...

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Trump the Realist July 01, 2024

The structure of unipolarity that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union bestowed the United States with enormous, unchecked power. ...

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You Have No Idea How Soviet We Really Are June 25, 2024

The historian Niall Ferguson launched his new column at the Free Press with a banger, “We’re All Soviets Now.” His comparison of the United States in 2024 to Russia in 1987 offended Jonah Goldberg and Noah Smith, among others, but their criticism of ...

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No, We Are Not Living in ‘Late Soviet America’ June 25, 2024

Ferguson compares the United States today to the Soviet Union, arguing that we live in “late Soviet America.” The comparison is not as crazy as I thought it was before I started the essay, but for all his marshaling of data and facts to sustain the a...

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We’re All Soviets Now June 19, 2024

A government with a permanent deficit and a bloated military. A bogus ideology pushed by elites. Poor health among ordinary people. Senescent leaders. Sound familiar? ...

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Isolationism Is Not a Strategy; It Is Its Abdication June 11, 2024

It may be said that the war against Hitler was won on the Eastern Front. It was the Red Army that broke the back of the Wehrmacht. Crucial to the Soviet Union’s victory was America’s Lend-Lease Act of 1941, which was originally titled An Act to Promo...

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