Biden is making a colossal mistake in thinking he can bleed Russia dry, topple Putin and signal to China to keep its hands off Taiwan.

Does Russia grind out victory? Can sanctions stop that? Might Putin go nuclear? Is China for war or peace? The past offers clues, but no certain answers.

Rampant inflation, foreign policy fiascoes and failed sanctions — is America back in a national malaise?

It is true that in 2005 Putin called the collapse of the Soviet empire ‘the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century’. But in fact it is the tsarist Russian Empire Putin is attempting to bring back from the dead. Peter the Great is his hero, much more than Stalin.

America and its allies can wean Europe off its dependence on energy imported from Russia.

From Waterloo to the Ukraine crisis, fears of conflict have moved interest rates, boosted commodities prices and won (and lost) people fortunes.

Long-run financial history suggests that negative interest rates are not unusual and that DeFi is a bona fide revolution.

The pandemic has revealed Americans to be tacit Social Darwinists, while trapping the Chinese in a vast Panopticon.

Current conditions are ideal for a Russian invasion, but the historical inspiration is more tsarist than Soviet.