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4 days ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Robert Kagan
“Vladimir, STOP!” That Truth Social post by President Donald Trump put a fitting capstone on one of the least successful negotiations in recent memory. For the past year or more, the conventional wisdom was that Vladimir Putin needed a deal on Ukraine. Russia’s economy was struggling under the weight of international sanctions, and its military had suffered staggering losses on the battlefield. Putin was supposed to be desperate for at least a pause in the fighting.
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2 weeks ago | 
theatlantic.com | Robert Kagan
“Vladimir, STOP!” That Truth Social post by President Donald Trump put a fitting capstone on one of the least successful negotiations in recent memory. For the past year or more, the conventional wisdom was that Vladimir Putin needed a deal on Ukraine. Russia’s economy was struggling under the weight of international sanctions, and its military had suffered staggering losses on the battlefield. Putin was supposed to be desperate for at least a pause in the fighting.
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1 month ago | 
theatlantic.com | Robert Kagan
The Founders knew that Americans, for better or worse, had an insatiable desire for overseas trade.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Robert Kagan
8 hours ago“Original Sins,” “Strike,” “Notes on Surviving the Fire,” and “There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die.” Original Sins, by Eve L. Ewing (One World). This stark critique of America’s schools anchors our current educational system in eighteenth-century ideas about race and intelligence. …
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Robert Kagan
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2 months ago | 
theatlantic.com | Robert Kagan
Hitler regretted the deal he made with Neville Chamberlain at Munich in 1938. What he actually wanted was war—his goal was to conquer all of Czechoslovakia by force as a first step toward the conquest of all Europe. He didn’t imagine that the British and French governments would be so craven as to give him everything he publicly asked for, including the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia and the occupation of the Sudetenland by the German army.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
blaetter.de | Robert Kagan
Ausgabe Februar 2025 Bild: Auf einem russischen Propagandaplakat in Donezk steht unter einem Z-Zeichen: Donbass unterstützt den Präsidenten! 5.3.2022 (Valentin Sprinchak / IMAGO / ITAR-TASS) Vizepräsident JD Vance hat einmal gesagt, ihm sei egal, was mit der Ukraine geschieht.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
linkiesta.it | Robert Kagan
Il vicepresidente eletto J.D. Vance una volta ha dichiarato di non preoccuparsi di ciò che accade all’Ucraina. Presto scopriremo se il popolo americano condivide la sua indifferenza, perché senza un’immediata e consistente nuova iniezione di aiuti da parte degli Stati Uniti, l’Ucraina rischia di perdere la guerra nei prossimi dodici, diciotto mesi.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
theatlantic.com | Robert Kagan
Vice-president Elect J. D. Vance once said that he doesn’t care what happens to Ukraine. We will soon find out whether the American people share his indifference, because if there is not soon a large new infusion of aid from the United States, Ukraine will likely lose the war within the next 12 to 18 months. Ukraine will not lose in a nice, negotiated way, with vital territories sacrificed but an independent Ukraine kept alive, sovereign, and protected by Western security guarantees.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Robert Kagan
4 hours agoAs I predicted might happen in a previous article, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stopped Russia from exporting oil and natural gas pumped in Russia through pipelines traversing Ukraine to Austria, Hungary and other European countries. This ended a longstanding energy partnership between …
