The Western alliance now faces an “axis of resistance” – centered around Russia and China – that might be tempted to threaten its hegemony with a simultaneous, coordinated challenge. Like sharks, they undoubtedly smell blood in the water.
Tag: Russia
A tale of four cities
Russia tried to crush the will of the people in Budapest in 1956, Prague in 1968 and Warsaw in 1981, and failed each time. Kyiv in 2022 will be the same – the question is how long it will take, and at what cost.
Cold War Liberalism
We can begin to understand why the barbarians were a kind of solution. They forced us to remember what freedom was and to imagine what it could be once again. Now we face a new challenge: how to conserve liberal freedoms once our citizens feel safe enough to take them for granted.