Tag: Kennan’s “long telegram”

It’s Time to Recall Kennan’s Long Telegram and Forget His Later Optimism about Change in Russia

October 6, 2015

Staunton, October 3 – George Kennan’s famous “long telegram” of February 1946 was written to explain to Western leaders something they found difficult to understand: how Moscow could turn from being a wartime ally into an implacable enemy, a problem that some Western leaders are again finding it difficult to understand. hat makes rereading Kennan’s […]