[Omega Man II]

Now, instead of ceding NATO to the Europeans and pulling out, we have moved NATO onto Russia's front porch and driven Moscow into the arms of Beijing.

People don't seem to form the connection between Putin's recent anti-USA rhetoric with the fact that we have been putting assets all along Russia's border.

[untrained skeptic]

Putin's anti-USA rhetoric started before us putting assets on Russia's border, and we are putting those assets there because they are strategically positioned to defend us against our enemies in the Middle East. Enemies that Russia has been lending significant aid to by both selling them weapons and running interference for them diplomatically in the UN.

The UN has long been useless because Russia and China veto any meaningful resolution in the Security Council, and the French have joined in in both the political obstruction and in selling weapons to our enemies.

I have little doubt that Russia would go back to it's own games if it had the power to do so and there wasn't opposition to keep them from doing so.

Pat Buchanan is delusional as the left when it comes to believing that the problems of the world are all our fault, and everyone would get along just fine if we minded our own business.

However, that doesn't mean that his points about withdrawing from useless and corrupt international institutions aren't valid.