We don’t have to go to war to make Russia regret imperialism. All we have to do is contain it.
We might not be able to prevent Putin from carving up Ukraine but we can raise the cost to the Kremlin of future adventures.
The end of the Cold War as we are reminded today, was a holiday from history.
Russia is now embracing not Communist evangelism but good old fashioned territorial expansionism - which is a recurrent feature of Russian history.
Putin has tested Obama’s mettle and found it wanting. The 80s are back like Gorbachev never happened.
We can’t afford another cold war.
Agreed, we never had it so good as when we simply “contained” communism. For one thing it meant that our factories (and jobs) didn’t all relocate to those areas.