Keeping an eye on the war racket

And other things I've been doing lately

Yesterday, in one of the rare respites I’ve had amid nonstop work for my book launch, I logged into a Zoom discussion whose title was the question that has been keeping me up at night: “Can War in Ukraine Be Avoided?”

It’s a question with a question behind it of course: Will a Russian invasion of Ukraine will become a war with the United States—sparking …