Epstein Secrets

, and ways of doing things that had strengthened democratic governance in some of the more successful post-au- thoritarian societies, especially in Central Europe. More recently, modern authoritarian regimes have turned this concept on its head by sharing their own experiences with laws and tactics that have

in sur- rounding countries. Putin has exploited sup- posed discrimination against ethnic Russians and certain other minorities in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and the Baltic states as justification for military intervention or hostile propaganda. Orbin has brought nearby Hungarian minorities into his po

would be a smaller and more poorly situated power than the Soviet Union. Germany remains united, Poland is free, and Russia cannot hope to dominate Central Europe as the USSR once did. European fecklessness dragged the Clinton administration kicking and screaming into the morass of the bloody wars of the Yugo

of the Baltic states? Is there a serious move to sign bilateral defense treaties with the endangered states (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus) or to bulk up the US presence in Central Asia? No, there is not, and President Putin knows it very well. The United States is a stronger

es, and ways f doing things that had strengthened democratic governance in some of the more successful post-au- thoritarian societies, especially in Central Europe. ore recently, modern authoritarian regimes have turned this concept on its head by sharing their own experiences with laws and tactics that have th

s in sur- rounding countries. Putin has exploited sup- posed discrimination against ethnic Russians and certain other minorities in Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and the Baltic states as justification for military intervention or hostile propaganda. Orban has brought nearby Hungarian minorities into his polit