My new book, To Run the World, is now on Google Books. You can't read the whole thing there but there is a substantial free preview. - so enjoy.

This here is one of the better things I wrote in the last few weeks. Trying to understand how Putin thinks about the world. Hope you enjoy the literary references.

For context:

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And get the book here: It's currently on sale, and is priced at just $26.88 (hardback).

HM treasury proposing innovative solutions to Russia’s debt problem. I like the spirit!

@russianforces Borin' Yeltsin isn't half as much fun as Excitin' Yeltsin.

Part of this here. Oh dear, what a line-up.

My view (by no means original) is that the Cold War ended because, basically, the Soviet Union went bankrupt. The Soviet project could not deliver (with the resultant de-legitimation of the powers that be), and a broken economy could not sustain superpower competition with the United States or, indeed, continue maintaining an empire in Eastern Europe. Military spending contributed to this problem but there were deeper problems with the project as conceived.

Hmmm, first Greenland. Now Gaza. I suspect the Galapagos have already been put on notice.

It matters only in a broader sense, for understanding what is happening in the world and what our range of responses might be.

And here's the book: highly recommend.