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Americans all too often presume that everyone else aspires to live and think as we do. Others must share our values, if only in secret, or at least be eager to learn them. This is a dangerous attitude to take with any nation or culture, but perhaps especially so with Russians—and never more so than when the topic is war. As Gregory Carleton observes in his superb 2017 study Russia: The Story of War, war is an indispensable part of how Russians see the world and their place in it. The extent to which World War II and all previous...

Putin orders his FSB agents to crack down on 'scum' who oppose him and raise their game in tackling Western spies and saboteurs Putin said the FSB had to counter what he said was increasing espionage The Russian despot headed the FSB until 1999, just before he became president Vladimir Putin today ordered his FSB counterintelligence service to crackdown on Russian 'scum' who oppose him. The despot was addressing the security agency's college in Moscow amid the brutal war with Ukraine which has killed hundreds of thousands of people. 'It's necessary to identify and stop the illegal activities of those...

NEW—Zelensky warns the US what will happen if Ukraine loses:“The US will have to send their sons and daughters exactly the same way as we are sending our sons and daughters to war... because it's NATO that we're talking about, and they will be dying."U.S. will Have to Send their Sons and Daughters