"Don t know much about history ." begins the song. Yesterday is over, so what does it matter? Some see history as stories to instill children with patriotism. Some think you can learn it from driving past statues of past heroes. Some limit themselves to America ignoring the world s 5,000 years of written memory.
What Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine today bears striking resemblance to what the United States has done for years, under the rubric of the Monroe Doctrine.
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We think we know what has happened in Ukraine. We have been told by the nation’s press that the military operation is simply Russian aggression. In other words, business as usual. There were several warning signs in February. Russian President Putin recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukrainian President Zelensky…