WHAT DOES VLADIMIR PUTIN WANT?
NICOLAS TENZER, PARIS The West has failed to grasp the deeply ideological nature of contemporary Putinism. We must understand its nature, scope, and goals. We cannot confront a threat we don’t understand.
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RUSSIA’S IMPERATIVE IN KAZAKHSTAN
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI Russia sent troops to Kazakhstan to crush an uprising. What does this mean for China? If you’re keen to know the future of Moscow’s relationship with Beijing, Central Asia is the critical region to watch.
THE END OF THE PEACE
JOSHUA TREVIÑO, AUSTIN We did not compel any sort of reckoning with the Communist past in Russia. The party which plunged the world into a century of tyranny and bloodshed should have been eradicated as thoroughly as the National Socialists were from Germany, but no one thought to do it.
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
DAVID BERLINSKI PARIS The historical literature about the First World War is vast and profoundly unsatisfying. Historians understand very well how the war came about. They cannot fully fathom why. There is a moral here pertinent to contemporary events: Things can go badly very quickly and when they do, they can go very badly.
BIDEN’S HOLODOMOR
ROBERT ZUBRIN, BOULDER The Biden Administration is weighing an immoral policy of entrapping Russia in a Ukrainian bloodbath.
IS WAR AHEAD IN THE PACIFIC?
VIVEK Y. KELKAR, MUMBAI The great powers are playing a high-risk shadow game. But such games have a nasty way of coming out of the shadows—with terrible consequences.
TIME SWOONS FOR THE TALIBAN
NERVANA MAHMOUD, ENGLAND By naming the co-founder of the Taliban one of the world’s 100 most influential leaders, Time Magazine reveals its contempt for Muslims and shows how successfully Islamists have brainwashed gullible Western elites.
A RAUKUS IN THE PACIFIC
ROBIN HÄGGBLOM, HELSINKI France and Australia are both right and wrong in this quarrel, while the US’s behavior just seems strange: Where were their diplomats in all of this? Why didn’t they forestall this imbroglio?
ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11
CLAIRE BERLINSKI, PARIS If you had told me twenty years ago that this is where we’d be today, I would have been surprised, to say the least.
HIPSTER ANTITRUST GOES BIG LEAGUE
ADAM GARFINKLE, WASHINGTON D.C. Biden’s latest Executive Order, which takes aim at anti-competitive practices across the entire US economy, shows the growing influence of neo-Brandeisian legal activists. But is their philosophy coherent?