[Cronos]

In the case of Russia, I favor directing its aggression south to turkey and Sunni Islam. It has already lined itself against sunnis. If you read Russias history from 1700 you can see that it and the wests mistake has always been to focus on the west, namely the former lands of the commonwealth. If it had not partitioned the commonwealth in 1791 then wwi would nit have happened and neither the Crimean war. And by 1860 Constantinople would have been Christian again

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Tailgunner Joe]

You act as if it is in America's ability to direct Russia's aggression anywhere. It's not. Putin's Russia is not interested in reaching any accord with us. They are determined to oppose us at all costs. Turkey and Russia are not interested in conflict with each other. Have you heard Turkey complaining about Putin's invasion of Ukraine? No, they are focused on Israel. Turkey is a major trading partner of Russia and there are more Russians vacationing in Turkey than in Crimea. Turkey is interested in Russia as an ally since the EU will not let Turkey join, and Putin's Eurasianist geopolitics dictates that Russia and Turkey should be allies.