He wrote a memorandum to President Ronald Reagan discussing his finding of a profound economic crisis in the Soviet Union caused by Russia's militarization and geopolitical over-expansion. ... If you want to understand what really happened in the Soviet Union, you..…
Snyder’s starting point is Ivan Ilyin (1883–1954), an itinerant nationalist and sometime-fascist thinker who has acquired a new vogue in post-Soviet Russia. ... The risks in a confrontation with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were enormous. ..…
The same is true for all US presidents, the lesson of Jack Kennedy not forgotten — killed by CIA for wanting all US forces out of Southeast Asia, rapprochement with Soviet Russia, disarmament, Palestinian rights respected, along with opposing other policies long followed by US..…