My forecast: WAR IS COMING.
Russia wants her empire back. If they sold nukes to Iran or Al Quaeda and America was attacked, would Obama retaliate against Russia? IMHO, hell no.
If the Chicoms invade Taiwan, would Obama lift a finger to repel them? Maybe he would cry and stomp his feet.
The next 3 years are the golden opportunity for our enemies including Al Quaeda, Iran, Russia, and China to weaken America and take what they want.
Its 1941 and we have Neville Chamberlain in for quarterback.
It’s 1985 - Obama is Tony Eason - and the Russians are Ditka’s Bears! Oh no!
My forecast: WAR IS COMING.
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Mine too. VDH seems to leap from the Peloponesian wars to WWII, for his historical references. I keep waiting for a historian to start making the comparisons to the world as it was in the 19 oughts. The 1890s years of glamour and gayety, were followed by the uprising of workers (exploited as always by other men who saw useful idiots) in many countries. Entrenched governments did not see the power of that movement until the Western world changed forever in 1914.
I am not enough of a scholar to make the pinpoint comparisons, I just have a sense that we are repeating the head-in-the-sand behavior of the governments at the beginning of the twentieth century.