"Bismarck may be Putin's model as well: he wanted to make Prussia supreme in most of Germany, just as Putin wants to restore some of Russia's position in the former Soviet Union, but even Bismarck did not want all German-speaking lands under his control. The Middle East, meanwhile, has essentially abandoned western tutelage. The future relationship of the West and the Far East is, I think, much more uncertain than many of us realize."
Professor Kaiser first put me onto Kennan's works. Especially good was The Decline of Bismarck's European Order, and its sequel.
BOOMERBUSTER
OLD CELLO
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