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Soviet Union’s support for Marxist revolutionaries in Africa, its SS-20 deployment, and its invasion of Afghanistan look less like a coordinated strategy to shift the global balance of power and more like the absence of any strategy at all. For what kind of logic assumes the permanence of unexpected windfalls? What kind of regime provokes those upon whom it has become economically dependent? What kind of leadership, for that matter, commits itself to the defense of human rights—as at Helsinki in 1975—but then is surprised when its own citizens claim such rights? The U.S.S.R. under Brezhnev’s faltering rule had become incapable of performing the most fundamental task of any effective strategy: the efficient use of available means to accomplish chosen ends
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
German factory wall just after the Berlin Wall came down was entirely appropriate—if long overdue: “To the workers of the world: I am sorry.” There hardly needed to be a signature.
The Cold War
John Lewis Gaddis
Egypt’s new ruler, Field Marshal Sisi, is fawned over by the West, who see him as a vital intermediary between Israel and the Palestinians. Without Riyadh’s approval, there would probably be no President Sisi: Egypt is dependent on Saudi money. The
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