In 1814-15, the Congress of Vienna laid the foundations of the new European order. The event concluded a quarter century of turmoil, which started with the French Revolution in 1789 and ended with Napoleon’s final defeat at Waterloo. The congress …
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Cracks in the Narrative on Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s foreign policy adviser Jens Plötner caused a major stir on June 20 when he said that the media should focus more on Germany’s future relationship with Russia than on supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons. He was …
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Is There a Western “Plan B” in Ukraine?
In his latest interview for Serbia’s top-rated Happy TV channel, Srdja Trifkovic dwells on the military and political dynamics after 111 days of the conflict in Ukraine. Since Dr. Trifkovic was speaking from Switzerland, via Skype, the first question was …
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Ukraine, a Hundred Days Later
Last Friday, June 3, marked the 100th day of the war in Ukraine. The war has not gone well for Russia. It is turning into a protracted affair, with many known unknowns. Its eventual outcome—not only military and political …
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Letter from Italy: Signs of Hope in Veneto
“A man is never undone till he be hang’d.”
Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Driving back from the Balkans to Zurich earlier this week, I stopped in Verona for a day. It is always a pleasure to visit this …
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U.S. and Ukraine, Goals in Conflict
Among the nations aiding Ukraine in its resistance to the Russian invasion, America has been foremost. Yet the war interests of our two nations are not identical. To the U.S., the imperative is that the war be contained, not expanded, …
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Russia, Ukraine, and the Return of Nationalism
The Russia-Ukraine War has become a proxy fight between American-led globalism and the alternative: a multipolar world of nation-states free from American hegemony.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become a test case for the ambitions of the United States and …
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Quo Vadis, Mother Russia?
“The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” said Russia’s new ruler Vladimir Putin in his 2005 state of the nation address. “As for the Russian people,” Putin went on, “it became a genuine …
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The Punishment That Europe Imposed on Itself
On May 15, Serbia’s oldest evening paper, Večernje novosti (Evening News), published an interview with our Chronicles Foreign Affairs Editor Srdja Trifkovic under the headline, “Debt Bondage to America,” and the subheading, “Srdja Trifkovic on the punishment that …
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Why Would US Give a War Guarantee—to Finland?
Seeing Russia invade Ukraine, historically neutral Finland has undergone a late conversion and decided to join NATO immediately. Why? Because NATO membership means the world’s strongest power, the United States, under Article 5 of NATO, would go to war against …
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Remembering Robert A. Taft
He was known as “Mr. Republican” because of his insistence on party unity, the lack of which had cost his father a second presidential term in 1912, and “Mr. Integrity,” because of his strong moral foundation, laid down many years …
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Western Hypocrisy Created Putin
Speaking at the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland, President Joe Biden declared on March 26 that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” Recognizing the danger of those words, Secretary of State Antony Blinken swiftly tried to do damage …
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A Ukrainian Tragedy
The Russian attack on Ukraine presents us clearly with an old dilemma in human affairs, which harks back at least to Hesiod’s Theogony: is our world Cosmos or Chaos? Is our history ruled by chance, in this case in …
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Disillusioned by Vlad
Back in 2000, Vladimir Putin repeatedly petitioned for Russia to be admitted to NATO, according to the alliance’s former secretary general, George Robertson, as well as my friend, the filmmaker Oliver Stone, who has interviewed the Russian president extensively
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