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Europe

How CIA used Ukraine as a platform for covert war against Russia

Project Aerodynamic became the Cold War template for Washington to exploit postwar poverty and anti-Soviet sentiment to Great Power benefit. How did that all work out?

Vice President Henry Wallace
Washington Politics

What if Dems didn't scuttle Henry Wallace VP nomination in 1944?

The anti-imperialist who coined "century of the common man" was already vice president when he was prevented by party bosses from running with FDR again.

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
Europe

Reagan & Gorby: What happened in Reykjavik didn't stay in Reykjavik

Forty years later, their efforts remind us of what is possible if leaders are willing to take chances and buck their foreign policy establishments

Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) speaking with Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) at a meeting of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a.k.a. U.S. Helsinki Commission) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Nov. 19, 2024.
Europe

The Helsinki Commission is a Cold War relic that needs to go

It's become a shadow State Department that is undermining US foreign policy, particularly in Georgia

Battle of Lake Okeechobee 1847
Washington Politics

By the sword: America was born intervening

The warnings against entanglements were never a doctrine of restraint. They were a doctrine of focus. Isolationism was selective.

war comic books
Media

How comics taught us how to love and hate war for nearly a century

While many are propaganda for domestic recruitment and foreign influence, other graphic serials have underscored the brutality of service and US policies