[Sola Veritas]

“If Mitt Romney does not understand the essential nature of his adversary after four years, how is he going to cope with Vladimir Putin?”

He won’t!

Putin is attempting to rebuild a new version of the USSR. Plus, China is attempting to become a world power, not just economically, but militarily. They remind me of Japan in late 20s and 30s leading up to WWII.

The nation would never stand for it, but we need to restore our military (Army, Navy, Marines, & Air Force) to “Cold War” strengths and heavily garrison the Pacific.

[nathanbedford]

The Bamster's "reset" approach to Russia has spectacularly failed and I do not think that Romney will duplicate that mistake. My question is what is in fact Putin's game, is he merely lashing out here and there opportunistically out of reflexive anger at the US or does Putin have mischief on a grand level in mind?

The troubling aspect of Putin's obstructionism over, for example, Iran is that it is coupled with an attempt to arrange a multilateral front against the United States involving China, the Marxists of Latin America, and Islamicists.

With respect to the need to restore the American Armed Forces to former more robust state of readiness, I agree completely but whatever is done must be done with due concern for the fiscal condition of the country. Further, it must be done with a view to two or three future generations of weapons systems which we must get absolutely right in view of our constrained resources. That means the militarization of space and, here again, Obama has taken the country in precisely the wrong direction.

Converting NASA to a Madison Avenue public relations vehicle for improving relations with the Muslim world will hardly enable us to survive cyber and space wars with the Chinese.