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A protracted conflict inthe Middle east involving America would provide a considerable boost for Russian interests. Ian Shaw/Alamy Live News

What the conflict in Iran means for Putin and Ukraine

The Russian leader will be angry at the assault on a Russian ally, but American involvement in a conflict in the Middle East for now will play to his advantage in Ukraine.
Russians on a military vehicle try to block its advance near the Red Square in Moscow in August 1991. The coup that briefly ousted Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev collapsed in three days, precipitating the breakup of the Soviet Union that the coup plotters said they were trying to prevent. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File)

Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?

America’s current retreat from world power recalls that of the Soviet Union after 1988. Is the U.S. poised to collapse like the Soviet Union did?
Trump has invited China’s Xi Jingping to attend his inauguration. This is clearly aimed at getting Beijing involved in negotiations over the Ukraine war. AP Photo/AlexBrandon/Alamy

Trump wants China’s help in making peace in Ukraine – he’s unlikely to get it

President Xi is unlikely to see any benefit from working with Donald Trump on peace negotiations for the Ukraine war.
Donetsk residents celebrate recognition of independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics by Russia on Feb. 21, 2022. Alexander RyuAlexander Ryumin\TASS via Getty Images

A historian corrects misunderstandings about Ukrainian and Russian history

History has many uses, and not all of them are noble. That’s very much the case as the public gets a crash course from politicians about Ukrainian history.
On May 27, 1919, British Prime Minister Lloyd George, Italian President Vittorio Orlando, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau and American President Woodrow Wilson met May 27, 1919, during the Paris Peace Conference. Lee Jackson/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

How the failures of the 1919 Versailles Peace Treaty set the stage for today’s anti‑racist uprisings

Suffering a pandemic and the aftermath of a war that killed 50 million, the world in 1920 faced a turning point as it negotiated a new political order. As today, the key issue was racial inequality.
A damaged Confederate statue lies on a pallet in a warehouse in Durham, N.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, after protesters yanked it off its pedestal in front of a government building. AP Photo/Allen Breed

A Confederate statue graveyard could help bury the Old South

Where do old Confederate statues go when they die? The former Soviet bloc countries could teach the US something about dealing with monuments from a painful past.
Female protesters in Petrograd (now St Petersburg) in 1917 on International Women’s Day. Wikimedia Commons

One American woman’s life in revolutionary Russia

How a journalist from Nebraska chased the ‘Soviet dream’ all the way to Russia, only to be expelled on accusations of espionage.

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