Tariffs based on tendentious history could be political malpractice

Published March 12, 2025 2:46pm ET



Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin‘s rationale for invading Ukraine, calls “tendentious history”?

This week, it started to look like the answer might be yes.

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