How about we fight just one Cold War at a time?

American Thinker.com ^ | April 14, 2022 | Francis P. Sempa

[Kaslin]

In an important article in Foreign Affairs entitled "The Ukraine Temptation," Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, urges the Biden administration to reject calls to effectively reverse America's strategic pivot to Asia by becoming more involved in the Russia-Ukraine war. Wertheim recognizes that it is China, not Russia, that poses the most immediate threat to U.S. strategic interests. The essence of Wertheim's advice, to paraphrase President Lincoln during the Civil War's Trent Affair, is one Cold War at a time.

Wertheim notes that the images of bombed Ukrainian cities that Americans are seeing daily on their television and smartphone screens, as well as the rhetoric of the Biden administration and others about Russian war crimes and civilian deaths, have understandably produced a "wave of anti-Russian sentiment" in the United States. But sentiment should not guide foreign policy; geopolitical interests, security threats, and an appreciation of the need to balance commitments with resources should.

Wertheim notes that the images of bombed Ukrainian cities that Americans are seeing daily on their television and smartphone screens, as well as the rhetoric of the Biden administration and others about Russian war crimes and civilian deaths, have understandably produced a "wave of anti-Russian sentiment" in the United States. But sentiment should not guide foreign policy; geopolitical interests, security threats, and an appreciation of the need to balance commitments with resources should.

Wertheim writes that the Biden administration has increased the number of American troops in Europe to 100,000, despite the fact that our European partners possess the economic and manpower resources to provide for their own common defense against Russia.

[alexander_busek]

Yeah, because America is capable of doing only one thing at a time.

None of this "multi-tasking" sh*t for us!

Regards,

[pepsionice]

When the US signed it’s commitment to NATO....it was saying that was the 500 pound guerrilla in the room, and that was the priority. Nothing has changed....even if they did give out these stupid Cold War medals in 1991 (I have mine) and suggested that Russia was our ‘friend’.

[mewzilla]

Hows about we deal with the enemy within first.

[Timber Rattler]

Don’t our enemies have a say in that?

[hardspunned]

“When the US signed it’s commitment to NATO....it was saying that was the 500 pound guerrilla in the room, and that was the priority. Nothing has changed“

No, nothing has changed but one little item. The entire reason for NATO, the alliance soon to be known as the Warsaw Pact, disappeared 30 years ago. The members of the WP and their militaries are aligned with NATO. The frontier is no longer the West German border, it is now 300 miles from Moscow. Nothing has changed, the massed Soviet armor is ready to roll through the Fulda Gap. We need to borrow more trillions and bring back the draft to stop the world wide Comintern. Nothing has changed, my big toe.

[DesertRhino]

Speaking of commitments, has Germany replaced the broomsticks they were using as machine guns yet? How many German soldiers died fighting in Afghanistan? Like all of the EU and Ukraine, they want free stuff from uncle sugar.