Take Your Money And Shove It: The Second Long Telegram, US Aid, And Russia’s Economic Trauma – OpEd

“It was as if the West’s central philosophical commitment to limited government was extirpated by a crude economic determinism that insisted on no government in Russia.” -- Peter J. Stavrakis, Kennan Institute Occasional Papers, 1993

Diplomatic advisors and analysts are a funny breed. They can be lauded as sages, called...