Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Paul Roderick Gregory: No,Thomas Friedman, Putin didn’t ‘blink’
In his recent column titled “Putin Blinked,” New York TimesColumnist Thomas Friedman compares Nikita Khrushchev’s “blink” when faced with U.S. warships off of Cuba in 1962 to Vladimir Putin’s “blink” when confronted with U.S. sanctions and an interrelated world economy. Friedman concedes the asymmetry of the two events: the first avoided a nuclear holocaust; the second was, in his words, “the first case of post Cold War brinkmanship.” But in each case, there was a face-off between the West and Russia, and in both cases Russia backed off.