> but it was in 1993, when my grad school professor Ilya Prizel pushed back against all the End of History BS and said Russia would eventually assert itself in

> but it was in 1993, when my grad school professor Ilya Prizel pushed back against all the End of History BS and said Russia would eventually assert itself in the middle of Europe, if desperately. He was dead right. I don’t know, it seems like great powers are prolonging the war in Ukraine’s favor right now. > less institutional capacity IR always bankrupts itself on trying to find gold in shithole countries.