The Soviet Union collapsed during the 1980s because its leaders and its corrupt, socialist economy were weak, which led to a strong American president, Ronald Reagan, taking advantage of those weaknesses to win the Cold War.
Today, the United States is similarly plagued by a weak leader whose corrupt, socialist economy has seriously weakened its economy, which has led to a strong Russian president, Vladimir Putin, beginning to take advantage of those weaknesses to win back the satellite territories relinquished when Soviet Russia lost the Cold War.
Why would Vladimir Putin stop his planned reconquest of Eastern Europe and other bordering areas in the face of the West’s abject weakness, which promises to continue if not become worse during the three years remaining in Barack Obama’s term?
Believing that Mr. Putin’s Russian bear will be satisfied with a mere morsel like the Crimea when a major part of the world lies open to him is to believe in fantasy. Today is the beginning of the rest of the Western world’s life — downhill until the American people can find it in themselves to elect a strong Conservative president in the manner of Ronald Reagan.
.If Ukraine joins the EU, Putin knows Russia is finished.
Ukraine has been unnecessarily belligerent and has a lesson coming.
Russia, a democratic, Christian, Caucasian country like us ,should and wants to be our partner, and for the last 25 years has worked to y\that end.
We need then like the free world needed Stalin in WW2, if we hope to save western culture from Islamist ideology domination.