I agree with you about the Gorbachev/Yeltsin conflict and the triumphalist West. More democracy and less purist capitalism was the sane way forward then, and still is. And not only in Russia...

You see it as a problem that some in Ukraine "have doubts that the liberal West is better than the conservative East." I see your claim of western superiority as a problem, and a major one. Was it the West or the East that gave the world crusades, and conquistadors…

I agree very strongly with your point about the way hawks speak of appeasement. They talk as if 1938 was the only moment in human history when someone tried to resolve a conflict by making a concession to someone else. Actually world leaders were doing this as far back as…

I agree that studying our evolutionary heritage can help us humans understand and address our current predicament. Chimpanzees not only hunt smaller primates, they also have wars among themselves, over territory and resources. They're intelligent, social animals, and also feisty and dangerous ones... Just like us humans, except that we're…

You've made the statement that Stalin invaded East Germany and other countries "following the Second War World". No, the Soviet army entered Germany and the other mentioned countries during the Second World War. That's a major reason why the Second World War ended as and when it did...

I strongly agree with your bottom line. It's a serious error to regard even the worst of humans as something other than a human. A subtler error than claiming they did nothing wrong, but a serious error nonetheless. Humanity as a species needs to learn as much as possible from…

Yes… If we really want to know what is happening in current conflicts, we need to study them the way serious historians study the past — by looking at available information from as many sides as possible. I think there is a big picture to be found. Based on past…