It was discussed at length in the episode, with a focus on Kennan's insights into US foreign policy and his warnings about NATO expansionism, particularly as they relate to Ukraine.
Furthermore, a new biography of Kennan actually tells us even more. Kennan wrote in a private letter after the admission of the former Soviet states into NATO that quote, nowhere does this choice appe...
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It was discussed at length in the episode, with a focus on Kennan's insights into US foreign policy and his warnings about NATO expansionism, particularly as they relate to Ukraine.
Furthermore, a new biography of Kennan actually tells us even more. Kennan wrote in a private letter after the admission of the former Soviet states into NATO that quote, nowhere does this choice appear more portentous and pregnant with fateful consequences than in the case of Ukraine.
Kennan's biographer Frank Castelliaga writes of the takeaway quote, Kennan's lesson for us in understanding the Cold War of the 20th century and in diffusing the explosive tensions of the 21st century is that seemingly intractable conflicts may be more susceptible to settlement than it may at first appear.
I thought the new biography is fantastic and a lot of the stuff I was reading about-