A Thought Experiment for Pro-War Liberals

Reprinted from The Realist Review: With the war in Ukraine back at the top of the fold (for now), I was thinking about how it all began and why so few of the good and right thinking liberals here in Washington--with their yellow and blue flags plastered on their cars...

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Should Trump Win A Nobel?

Reprinted from The Realist Review. Donald Trump’s Give Me A Nobel Prize Tour made a stop in Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday. At a much anticipated gathering of over 800 US flag officers – who were ordered to the Marine base at the behest of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...

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When ‘Pro-Western’ Is a Euphemism…

Reprinted from The Realist Review.  A recent CBS News headline blares: Suspect arrested in shooting death of pro-Western Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy, Zelenskyy says. Well. That’s one way of describing Parubiy. Here’s another: In February 2016, I got wind of...

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The Alaska Summit: A Symposium

The Realist Review and The American Committee for US-Russia Accord have gathered over a dozen experts on US-Russia relations and US foreign policy to share their thoughts on Friday’s summit in Alaska. Below are contributions from Norman Solomon, Ted Snider, Martin...

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An Interview with Professor Nicolai Petro

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. The following is an interview with Nicolai N. Petro about his book, The Tragedy of Ukraine (De Gruyter, 2023). What inspired you to approach the Russia–Ukraine conflict through the lens of classical Greek tragedy? Why...

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America Last?: The Neocons Make Their Move…

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. In a landmark piece of reporting out this week in New York magazine, the journalist Suzy Hansen observes that, The Democrats allowed themselves to be dragged into lawlessness by Netanyahu and his virulently racist...

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James Carden on Generalissimo Kagan

Reprinted with permission from The Realist Review. That Robert Kagan is among the most consistent – and consistently wrong – foreign policy analysts in Washington will not come as news. That he continues to command so much attention twenty-odd years since the Iraq...

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