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Europe

Russian invasion could change the world order

What started out as a league of nations turned into a unipolar century. That's evaporating quickly and the US now has to reckon with it.

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Europe

Putin is channeling Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War

Does Moscow really want to invade Ukraine? No more than it really wanted to take West Berlin by force in 1958-61.

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Military Industrial Complex

Dirty secret: We did not train the Afghan army to fight on their own

An historian points out that our partners weren't equipped to win without air support — but neither are we.