Economic Principals set out to write this week about two important books about the origins of the Russia-Ukraine war. The idea was to place plans for a US-Ukraine mineral rights partnership in their context.
It seemed ironic that the agreement was signed on April 30, the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and America’s final defeat in its Vietnam war. The Paris Peace talks of those years (1968-1973) came to mind.
EP couldn’t make it work.
Hubris: The American Origins of Russia's War against Ukraine [scroll up
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