In memory of Boris Nemtsov, a hero not only of his country but of what I would call the Democratic International, I would like to offer a few broad conclusions that I have drawn from the horror of his fate. These are all sobering conclusions; but our times are schooling us in a new sobriety about history. We are learning, too, to be more sober about ourselves, about our own role in shaping history in the direction of our professed ideals—but the sobriety that I have in mind about the American role, and the Western role, in the campaign (such …read more
Source: The American Interest
