The Soviet Union, the Great Patriotic War Museum

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The soviet union always looms large in Russia's memory of the second world war. It is ggering at just how much loss they suffered once hitler made that blunderous decision to invade them. The west helped a little bit around the fringes, that's what they argue. But not giving due to the suffering of the east european people,. is really, a, is really not fair.

In this conversation based on his new book, The Stupidity of War, political scientist John Mueller argues that American foreign policy since 1945 has been one long miscue; most international threats — including during the Cold War — have been substantially exaggerated. The result has been agony and bloviation, unnecessary and costly military interventions that have mostly failed. With international war in decline, complacency and appeasement become viable diplomatic devices and a large military is scarcely required.