THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Sumantra Maitra) - The Task of Diplomacy
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Foreign Affairs The Task of Diplomacy Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky: rest in peace. (Photo by Jyoti Kapoor/The India Today Group via Getty Images) My quest for Robert, Lord Skidelsky to write an essay for The American Conservative started in earnest after a Duke of Marlborough (James Spencer-Churchill) tweet (it was still called that then), wherein Marlborough wrote that Winston Churchill, his great uncle, would be appalled at the use of the wartime prime minister’s name to continue the needless loss of life in Ukraine in preference to a negotiated compromise. The tweet he was responding to was from Lord…Open