Applebaum is correct about Trump's clueless mindset and geopolitical ignorance. But I've learned to entirely mistrust her analysis of all things to do with Russia-Ukraine. I don't think she has an ounce of strategic empathy. One can at once despise Putin while still acknowledging core Russian interests and the US/NATO role in fomenting and exacerbating a crisis in Ukraine as a means of poking the bear.
For an academic, hers is a very biased and shallow democracy vs autocracy analysis; in essence it's neocon to the core. In that sense she and like-minds are just as dangerous in their predictability as Trump the Erratic. P.S. glaring typos in 2nd sentence. Minor ones elsewhere 😉
Applebaum is correct about Trump's clueless mindset and geopolitical ignorance. But I've learned to entirely mistrust her analysis of all things to do with Russia-Ukraine. I don't think she has an ounce of strategic empathy. One can at once despise Putin while still acknowledging core Russian interests and the US/NATO role in fomenting and exacerbating a crisis in Ukraine as a means of poking the bear.
For an academic, hers is a very biased and shallow democracy vs autocracy analysis; in essence it's neocon to the core. In that sense she and like-minds are just as dangerous in their predictability as Trump the Erratic. P.S. glaring typos in 2nd sentence. Minor ones elsewhere 😉