In 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” His goal is to restore Russia as a great world power. Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, including the deployment and announcement of..…

Why US elites, after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, ultimately chose Cold War rather than partnership with Russia is a question beyond my purpose here. ... In any event, once this approach to post-Soviet Russia began, promoting it was not hard. ..…

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So, what happened 100 years in the trenches of France, Germany and even post Soviet Russia, and Erdogan's Turkey. ..…