Leon Aron
Contributor at The Atlantic
Senior Fellow at @AEI. Author of Riding the Tiger, Roads to the Temple, Russia’s Revolution, and Yeltsin. tweeting from @AronRTTT.
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1 week ago |
aei.org | Leon Aron
Vladimir Putin continues to confront Ukraine with absurd demands during so-called peace talks. Mr. Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants victory, and he’s playing President Trump to achieve it. Mr. Putin will drag on the war until Mr. Trump gets so bored of mediation and frustrated with U.S. assistance to Ukraine that he gives up on both.
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1 week ago |
wsj.com | Leon Aron
Vladimir Putin continues to confront Ukraine with absurd demands during so-called peace talks. Mr. Putin doesn’t want peace. He wants victory, and he’s playing President Trump to achieve it. Mr. Putin will drag on the war until Mr. Trump gets so bored of mediation and frustrated with U.S. assistance to Ukraine that he gives up on both.
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4 weeks ago |
aei.org | Marc Thiessen |Leon Aron |Dalibor Rohac |Danielle Pletka
Op-Ed Congress Can Give Trump the Leverage to Coerce Putin Multimedia Trump Woke Up Europe, But His Ukraine Peace Push May Undermine China Strategy, Says Leon Aron Multimedia The Dispatch: Red Hot Soviet Nationalism Op-Ed Putin’s Victory Day Parade of ‘World Leaders’ Op-Ed Trump Should Build a Wall Between Russia and Ukraine Op-Ed Ukraine Holds More Cards Than You Think Article WTH: The Path to Peace for Ukraine Op-Ed Trump Could Seal His Peace Deal with a $50B Arms Sale to Ukraine Press...
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1 month ago |
aei.org | Leon Aron
Successive US administrations have long lobbied European allies to shoulder their fair burden for joint defense, but US President Donald Trump has taken a more bottom-line driven approach to NATO, publicly questioning why the United States should pay for the defense of rich European nations. And that tough rhetoric has shaken Europe out of its decades-long national security slumber, according to Russian-American scholar Leon Aron.
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1 month ago |
aei.org | Leon Aron
Jonah Goldberg is joined by Dr. Leon Aron for some Remnant-style Kremlinology. Jonah and Dr. Aron discuss Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s relationship, the state of the war in Ukraine, and what will happen to Russia without Putin at the helm. Plus: a long march through Russian history and the precarious position of top Russian military brass.
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It is this moral blindness (and ignorance) that Putin bets on.
In what looks like Trump's amoral universe there is no difference between banditry and victimhood, wars of aggression and just wars in defense of liberty and sovereignty, Ergo, there is no moral obligation (not to mention urgency) to come to a victim's assistance.