The Case for the Nuclear Option

The excellent analysis by Edward Luttwak in the August 1982 issue of Commentary Magazine (link), (which I will send a PDF copy of upon DM request) makes a case for a vital nuclear option in the Ukraine War (special military option) and indeed illustrates it. Ukraine is not a perfect country by any means but it is certainly better than Russia as controlled by Putin. Our response should be effective, and not limited to the "coordinated cries of...

I just finished reading The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik.

The Great Upheaval focuses on the American and French Revolutions and the bloody final days of Catherine the Great, Czarina of Russia. The author makes the argument that despite slow and sporadic communication over large distances, these events were heavily interconnected. It is well-known that during the 1790's many American leaders, particularly Federalists,...

Russian Migrant Identity Struggle-‘I Don’t Want to... and
Russian Immigrant Identity Struggle - ‘I Don’t Want to Be Called Russian Anymore'



‘I Don’t Want to Be Called Russian Anymore’: Anxious Soviet Diaspora Rethinks Identity; (link), excerpts below:
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4-29-2022

I do not appreciate a TOS volation being called out in debate. I will address other arguments in an otherwise decent post. From “do we believe….”

4-8-2022

Should be subject of report, not post.

3-27-2022

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