In Europe and Russia, There’s Talk of War
This article first appeared on the Wilson Center site. Recently, I grabbed a taxi in Moscow. When the driver asked me where I was from, I told him the United States. “I went there once,” he said, “to Chicago. I really liked it.” “But tell me something,” he added. “When are we going to war?” The question, put so starkly, so honestly, shocked me. “Well, I hope never,” I replied. “No one wants war.” At the office, I ask a Russian employee about the mood in his working class Moscow neighborhood. The old people are buying salt, matches and gretchka [buckwheat], he tells me--the time-worn refuge for Russians stocking up on essentials in case of war. In the past two months, I’ve traveled to the Baltic ...
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