Do the Russians have war in their blood?

The Russians don’t really have war in their blood permanently. No more than everybody else does, anyway.

What dragged this growing conviction out into the light was Joe Biden’s unfortunate remark that Russian President Vladimir Putin 'cannot remain in power.' That was widely interpreted as an incitement to regime change in Moscow, which would be a good idea but is not a permissible comment in terms of international diplomatic discourse, writes Gwynne Dyer Photographs courtesy of Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 4, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—The geopolitical views of my grandmother, Florence O’Driscoll, could have been summed up in seven words: ‘The Germans Have War in their Blood’. Even as a child I suspected that the world must be more complicated than that, but I never contradicted her. She came by those views th...

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