Foreign Affairs
Brokers of Conflict Our posture on the international stage communicates domestic fragility.
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The present political situation regarding the Russia-Ukraine war has often been likened to the interwar period in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. This is a useful comparisonโbut not for the reason that most Western observers currently think. They argue that conceding any of Moscowโs territorial claims is the equivalent of โappeasementโ in regard to Hitlerโs annexations of various German-speaking regions. For such analysts, the seizure of...