By now it should be painfully obvious to all of Eastern Europe -- from the Ukraine and Romania to Poland and the Baltic States -- that they can not count on Western Europe or the U.S. for the defense of their sovereignty. They don't want to go back to being under Russian dictatorship and dysfunctional economics. And they can't count on Western Europe, the U.S. or NATO to do much of anything. Western Europe is dependent on Russia for energy and it is pacifist. The U.S. is overstretched militarily and financially and has lost a lot of moral authority. Its...
