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Joseph Epstein

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Aug 30, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Joseph Epstein

    Is Iran Facing Its Soviet Moment and Its End? | Opinion (opens the original)

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    Director of the Turan Research Center and Senior Fellow at the Yorktown Institute On September 13, 1985, Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani announced that his country would stop propping up the price of crude. Prices collapsed, and the Soviet Union lost roughly $20 billion a year in hard currency—“money without which the country simply could not survive,” in the estimate of Yegor Gaidar, later Russia’s acting prime minister. Gaidar dated the collapse of the Soviet Union to that announcement. T

  2. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Joseph Epstein

    Moscow’s former colonies are done taking orders from Putin | Opinion (opens the original)

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    Director of the Turan Research Center and Senior Fellow at the Yorktown Institute For three decades after the Soviet Union collapsed, governments across Central Asia and the South Caucasus made foreign-policy decisions with one question always in mind: What will Moscow allow? Kazakhstan supplies rare earths to America and tells Vladimir Putin to end his war. Armenia has written EU membership into law and stopped showing up to Russia's military alliance. Azerbaijan hosts conferences on Russian co

  3. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Joseph Epstein

    Putin is losing Russia's empire on Trump's watch | Opinion (opens the original)

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    Director of the Turan Research Center and Senior Fellow at the Yorktown Institute Not a lot of folks outside the former Soviet space have heard of Wildberries, the Russian answer to Amazon—but the company is starting to make news, because it is on fire. In recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have burned eight of its logistics hubs, outside Moscow and St. Petersburg, in Krasnodar, and in occupied Simferopol. More than a tenth of its warehouse capacity is gone. Rebuilding it will cost some $460 million

  4. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Joseph Epstein

    How to stop a Turkey-Israel war | Opinion (opens the original)

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    Director of the Turan Research Center and Senior Fellow at the Yorktown Institute "[Israelis] have become a burden that humanity can no longer bear." That wasn't an Iranian ayatollah, a Hamas spokesman, or even a Columbia University professor. It was Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, representing NATO’s second-largest military, speaking on Turkish television last week. Israel's foreign minister called it textbook incitement to genocide. In the same interview, Fidan said Ankara has "no proble

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