Epstein Secrets

iders in Cuba and as the bellicose advocate of American expansionism in the Pacific. "I should welcome any war, for I think the country needs one," Roosevelt wrote a friend in 1897. But Roosevelt's most important contribution to American foreign policy came later—when he became president in 1901 and when

ed by Moscow to listen to its diktats. That path is now blocked. Princeton professor Stephen Kotkin points out that in the last elections, in 2010, Viktor Yanukovych, representing to some extent the pro- Russian forces, won Crimea by nearly a million votes, which is why he won the election overall. In other words

erica first." In the mid-to-late 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt took a different approach, pushing back, at firs

en it put 150,000 troops on high alert on Wednesday for war games near Ukraine's border and then on Friday allowed the deposed Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovych, to give a news conference when he showed up in the Russian city Rostov-on-Don. The situation has now gone from chaos to the verge of military con

there were only 11 democracies left, and Franklin Roosevelt worried that it might not be possible to shield

planned "Eurasian Union" as the core of a new Russian mini-empire. Turns out, however, Ukraine had other ideas. It overthrew Moscow's man in Kiev, Viktor Yanukovych, and turned to the West. But the West — the E.U. and America — had no idea what to do. Russia does. Moscow denounces the overthrow as the illegal w

e of the NSA | 199 Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reactivated the operation as the Signal Security

995. Kucherena’s well-known friendship with Putin had evidently not hurt his law practice. His clients had included such well-connected defendants as Viktor Yanukovych, the president of Ukraine overthrown in 2014; Grigory Leps, a Russian singer black- listed by the United States for allegedly acting as a money couri