“War is a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.”                                                                   —Paul Valéry Legend has it that when Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, visited Crimea in 1787, her lover, Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, came up with the idea of constructing … Continue reading Lifting the Veil on Russia’s SMO in Ukraine: Is Putin’s Response to NATO’s Provocations a Potemkin Village?