Sumantra Maitra
Dr Sumantra Maitra, FRHistS, is a historian. He is the director of research at the American Ideas Institute, and a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, and an advisor to the congressional Greenland caucus. His latest book is titled The Sources of Russian Aggression, was published by Rowman and Littlefield, in 2024
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The old Art has an armoury of skunk-like defence mechanisms to keep the unwashed at bay
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Four million citizens of Damascus remain uncertain of what the future will bring
