Nuking Russia

Vladimir Putin’s mid-dictatorship crisis has erased 20 years of growth and geopolitical statecraft

[Published first on 3/16/22 on my substack, The Halfway Café. If you enjoy liberal takes on contemporary politics and foreign policy, subscribe!]

Vladimir Putin’s fundamental misconception of historical context in his ongoing European invasion is that Ukrainians’ demand for independence and utter disinterest in…