The Post-Partisan Emporium

Thanks to CoCoLuv9491 for recommending this article... The Ukraine invasion is nothing compared to Iraq Or Iran or Afghanistan or… By Andrew Bacevich Of the war in Ukraine,  New York Times  columnist Thomas Friedman  writes , “Our world is not going to be the same again because this war has no historical parallel.” In the very next sentence, he describes the Russian invasion of Ukraine as “a raw, eighteenth-century-style land grab by a superpower,” thereby acknowledging that the episode actually has innumerable historical parallels — just not ones that Friedman cares to acknowledge as legitimate. Friedman figures prominently among those claiming to have divined the essential character of the present age. His key finding: tech-driven globalization has rendered old-fashioned power politics obsolete. The rules of the game have changed irrevocably. Practically speaking, nations have no choice but to submit. In Friedman’s “hot, flat and crowded” world governed by tech-dri...