
“Back in the USSR” with The Wall Street Journal’s Walter Russell Mead
Call Me Back - with Dan Senor
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Is It Folly for Russia to Go Any Further?
Some commentators and analysts have pointed out it would be folly for russia, given how weak it is these days. And as our mutual friend ne ferguson has pointed out, you don't need to be goliath to start a war. It's also worth thinking that at the start of the wars between britain and france in 16 89, france had three times britain population in double its g d p. So a i his kind of naive, vulgar economic determinism, ah is very poor guide to world history, into ge politics.
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