On What Really Matters, Walter Russell Mead discusses the possibility of a recession, the new Chinese railway in Africa, and how Donald Trump鈥檚 approach to Vladimir Putin compares with Franklin D. Roosevelt鈥檚 to Joseph Stalin and Richard Nixon鈥檚 to Leonid Brezhnev.

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Gunners from the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire at Russian position with a 155 mm self-propelled howitzer 2C22 in the Kharkiv region on April 21, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)