by jpitney | Jun 6, 2024 | Europe, Foreign Policy, Military, Reagan
President Reagan, June 6, 1984: In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague,...
by jpitney | Jun 6, 2021 | Democracy, Europe
David Smith at The Guardian: “There was a momentary sigh of relief but the level of anxiety is actually strangely higher now than in 2016 in the sense that it’s not just about one person but there are broader structural issues,” said Daniel Ziblatt, co-author of How...
by jpitney | Nov 25, 2019 | Europe, Foreign Policy, Uncategorized
Ripon Forum interview with former Senator, Ambassador, and DNI Dan Coats: I am a transatlanticist. Most of my former colleagues in Congress and government are as well, irrespective of any generational differences I mentioned above. No country, no matter how powerful,...
