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Kotkin on Russia and the West

by Alex Tabarrok

Marginal Revolution

13 Mar

A great interview with historian Stephen Kotkin. Kotkin has some some thoughts on the Kennan, Mearsheimer, Kissinger, Hill, Service et al. view that expanding NATO was a precipitating event in the Ukraine-Russia war which are well taken, albeit he fails to think on the margin. Much more important is his full throated defense of the West. Just a few months ago a defense like this would have been branded as right-wing agitprop and the author attacked for not being woke to the evils of capitalism. But Putin has reminded the West of its virtues.

On a kind of natural resource curse:

On why the stupid get on top:

On the importance of error correction:

And most importantly, we need to blaze a path to de-escalation.

A great interview. Read the whole thing.

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