Ukraine’s Allies Are Blundering Their Handling of Putin
Calling Russia’s president a war criminal was a form of “strategic madness,” says a leading Israeli foreign-policy scholar.
A lose-lose war in Ukraine, says Professor Yehezkel Dror.
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If Israel has a senior global strategist, he is Yehezkel Dror. As a professor at the Hebrew University, he has educated generations of Israeli leaders. Six prime ministers have consulted him on issues of war and peace. “Crazy States: A Counterconventional Strategic Problem,” written while he was working at the Rand Corp. and published in 1971, awakened the world to the imminent threat posed by fanatical third-world regimes.
Israelis sometimes refer to Dror as the Israeli Henry Kissinger. Both fled the Nazis as boys. They share German as a first language, doctorates from Harvard and a very developed and often highly controversial brand of foreign policy realism.