Don’t disagree the hammer and sickle are back but you plan for things not rush in. Look at a map and the distance between us and Georgia, that might put it into perspective for you. And once we send in air, they send in more air. Timing is everything.
Do we really want to get down in the mud and wrestle with the Russian Bear right now? I think the chances of us intervening in this are pretty much nil. We also have the “We Are The World” Chinee to worry about. They have been acting downright surly, considering they’re hosting the olympics, which most of us are essentially boycotting, IINM.
I don’t know if I can go as far as calling us bankrupt, but you may be right. Like the brittle shell that was the former USSR the air may be let out of our balloon quite suddenly.
Course, if we ARE bankrupt, and we write off all the debts we owe “the planet” everybody would go down in a heap real quick.
Sometimes doing something *now* is better than doing the best thing sometime in the future. Besides, how do you know we *don't* have a plan for a situation such as this?
We need to act quickly though, whatever we plan on doing. Congress will be back from recess soon.