Niall Ferguson's Time Machine

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J.D. Vance’s Fighting Words—Against Me and Ukraine

It is not ‘moralistic garbage’ but a hard and realistic lesson of history that wars are easy to start and hard to end.

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Niall Ferguson
Feb 21, 2025
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It is not every day I am accused by the vice president of the United States of purveying “moralistic garbage” and “historical illiteracy,” and of being a “globalist.” But those were the charges leveled against me by J.D. Vance this morning.

I suppose I should not have been surprised by the onslaught. This week, President Donald Trump’s efforts to negotia…

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