I told others in 2004 that the discussion of Ukraine entering Nato was a direct challenge to Russia and that pushing in this area was folly. Our nation has indeed overstreched, we attempted globalization on such scale 40 years too early. America should go energy independent as national importance, indluding drilling. We will no doubt square off some day against the Russian bear. For now, there is time. But if we dilly-dally on energy we can expect very serious consequences a few short years from now.
A long read but the quality isn’t there. After reading the first several paragraphs there are some substantive factual errors.
By why quibble with those. The conclusion is fairly absurd. This guy is claiming that Russia is “announcing...its status...as a world power...”, by invading a country of 4 million people. I mean honestly, we used to worry about the Soviets rolling the Central Plains of Europe in 3 days from Russia to the coast of France.