A conspiracy theorist would think that Vladimir Putin was trying to help sales of my book. The thesis that we are entering a new and sinister era in our relations with Russia seemed a bit outlandish when I started writing “The New Cold War” (as the...
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Let us leave history to the historians. Well if only we could. You can do that if you are discussing German reunification, or the 100 Years War. But when it is the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or indeed anything to do with World War Two, or most of the...
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Every new man in the Kremlin enjoys a honeymoon with the West. And in each case that is followed by bitter disillusion: Mikhail Gorbachev caved in to Kremlin hardliners and proved pitifully ineffective; Yeltsin succumbed to alcohol and the corruption...
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