🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

That's a hell of story.

I’ve been waiting a long time for this one. Andrew Preston’s new book on how the New Deal invented the idea of “national security.” An important book to understand our foreign policy moment. It will be a must read.

We have to realize that all ethnic/religious generalizations are plain wrong. My father was for 4y in a German POW camp. He spoke German & gradually developed relationship with the guards. By 1943-44 they exchanged jokes. These people were ordinary people; they did not want to be

So, since I am a fan of primary sources, let's go through the new US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund Agreement: kmu.gov.ua/storage/app/up…. At first, it's pretty bad. At second, it (possibly?) amounts to little. An explainer.

Finally: The World of the Cold War! I mean the book, not the state of international affairs. Although who can predict…

What must Ukraine give up for peace? ft.com/content/5977ef… via @ft

Joseph Nye, a Harvard professor whose ideas on the nature of power in international relations influenced generations of policymakers, academics, & students and made him one of the world’s most celebrated political thinkers, has died at the age of 88 ken.sc/3RQSGav

Finally America got a new leader….in Rome. Long live Leo the 14th.

I mentioned most of this (informally) at a Europa conference in Madrid several days ago. Europe should stop living in the 1990s. There is no End of History anymore. Things have changed. EU's economy is declining but it continues to dispense gratuitous lessons to the world.

Historically not always the case. Negotiations often happen while the war is ongoing. Precedents: Vietnam peace talks (1968-1973). Afghanistan peace talks (1982-1988). Korean armistice talks (1951-53).

From my old friend and colleague Sergei and Sam Charap, another must read article. They are among a few who approach this topic with analytical balance. foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

From formidable Dominic Sandbrook, a very British and highly favorable assessment of my last book. I am thrilled to learn that he liked my “Collapse” as well! thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Orwell coined “Cold War.” Honoured to find my book among the eight remarkable finalists for this year. Many thanks to the judges for this decision.

"Those who organized the murder of the Wilson Center did not hate the books. ... A Lithuanian Village offends no one who is offended by diversity, equity, and inclusion." Bravura essay by Michael Kimmage on the abandonment of the Kennan Institute library. libertiesjournal.com/online-article…

6/ Equal outcomes and emotional harm protection for sacred race, gender and sexual identity groups (woke) was the unassailable End of History. The only question was mobilizing activists & capturing institutions

Syria is in talks with Israel to make peace and join Abraham Accords. If true, extraordinary and a new era ynetnews.com/article/rjmw36…

Heading to Oxford for tonight's conversation at Balliol with University's International Relations Society. My first visit this illustrious place in the post-covid era. politics.ox.ac.uk/event/conversa…

Better times.

Some of those outdated strategic bombers from the 1960s destroyed today by Ukrainian operation was an object of contention in 1991-92 that almost led to a conflict. Now…just a shrug of shoulders. Pearl Harbour that does not matter.