Donald Trump recently called Vladimir Putin crazy after a massive Russian aerial attack on Ukraine. Trump has made repeated attempts to approach Putin as a rational actor that he can deal with. Putin has ignored these overtures and has consistently…
Over the past weekend, the Wall Street Journal ran an alarming article entitled “The Russian Military Moves That Have Europe on Edge.” The article leads with Russian moves along the border with Finland, and the accompanying photograph highlights activity at…
Vladimir Putin has brought his war on Ukraine to America’s Caribbean underbelly by deploying nuclear capable, missile carrying warships that docked in Cuba last week for prolonged exercises with local allies in the region that are expected to continue well…
In late April 2024, after lectures in several cities in Poland, I visited Moldova and its breakaway province of Transnistria. Together, they approximate the size of the state of Maryland. Located in southeastern Europe, Moldova borders Ukraine and Romania. Moldovans,…
The Hoover Institution’s Stephen Kotkin is probably America’s top Kremlinologist. He knows Russia — its history, culture, and politics — as well or better than any contemporary scholar in the United States. He is in the process of completing the…
The news from Moscow is that Russia is likely to abandon the 13 percent flat-rate income tax enacted in 2000, not long after a group of visiting conservative/libertarian American economists, including me, advised newly installed President Vladimir Putin to dramatically…
It is the morning of May 12, 1892, and the Lithuanian-born landscape painter Isaac Ilyich Levitan has just left his home and studio on Moscow’s leafy Bolshoy Trekhsvyatitelsky Lane to spend the summer sketching and painting amid the endless expanse…
In my most recent article for American Spectator I wrote of the developing Russian threat to the Baltic states, signified by the Putin regime’s placement of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a wanted list, along with other figures from…
“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.” So declared Joseph Stalin, the murderous tyrant whose own death arrived on March 5, 1953, five months after the birth of Vladimir Putin. Stalin’s death solved a great problem for his vast…
