A nationalist with Nazi sympathies, Utkin's callsign in the Russian services was said to have been "Wagner" — a nod to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's love for the 19th-century German composer of the same name. Utkin was also reportedly killed in the Aug. 23 crash. ...
Nonetheless, it's not too early to begin thinking about what was clearly an intellectual failure. There was, above all, a failure to understand the consequences of our power. There was a failure to anticipate the response our power would have on the people we sought to liberate. They resent...