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Since the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia more than thirty years ago, I have repeatedly been surprised and even shocked by the ignorance of history shown by policymakers and politicians, an ignorance which has its most recent terrible manifestation in the almost complete failure to anticipate the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Vanquished will in a few hours make its reader better informed than many of those paid to govern her. It demonstrates how the problems of Syria and the Levant (which can be read about in more detail in James Barr’s A Line in the Sand) and…
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