Winter Memories of History’s Most Consequential Anti-Communist
Ronald Reagan knew how to be a great president.
Ronald Reagan knew how to be a great president.
Kissinger rejected the idea of America as a ‘City upon a hill’ and exercised a statesmanship guided by power, not morality.
With his speech to the nation, President Biden just foreboded a tectonic shift in the American political landscape.
100,000 U.S. troops are now stationed in Europe, Kirby announced, adding that the White House is “watching what’s going on in Belarus very, very closely.”
In 1986, an unknown assassin killed the Swedish prime minister. While the country lost its innocence, the murder changed the geostrategic landscape in Northern Europe.
Authors Le Carré and Koestler saw through the moral justifications of 20th-century communism. They understood that tallying up lives saved and lost is a bad way to do business, particularly when the “lives saved” column is skewed by those in power.
The numerically smaller Ukrainian ‘David’ stumped the behemoth Russian ‘Goliath’ at the start of the operation. ‘Mission command’ style of leadership is the source of Ukraine’s strength.
Today’s Russia is not yesterday’s Soviet Union. What Putin does to his country is unacceptable, but unlike the leaders of the communist state of the last century, he does not have an ideology that compels him to eliminate the economic and political system of the West.
Despite both parties’ stated desire to lower tensions on the Ukraine border and come to an agreement, no progress was made.
It takes a lot of trauma to invoke a historic naval defeat such as Trafalgar as a metaphor for a diplomatic reversal.
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