Tag: Ricahrd Kagan

• PUTIN, POKER, AND HISTORY

  I recently heard a commentator (forgive me, I can’t remember who it was or where I heard it, but I did hear it) describe the situation in Crimea as a game.  He said that Vladimir Putin was playing chess but President Barack Obama was playing checkers.  It was a clever line, but I think the…

  Jamie Greening

  March 25, 2014

  All, Books, Culture, politics

  Baltic States, Crimea, Georgia, NATO, Poker, President Obama, Ricahrd Kagan, Russia, The End of History, Ukraine