What today's American warhawks fail to recognize is that any fight on Russia's own border is an existential threat to Russia. When the 6'5" 300-lb Michael Brown attacked the much smaller Darren Wilson, he gave the police officer the justification to use any force necessary to end the immediate threat to his life. Likewise, if the American military machine jumps into a civil war against Russia's interest along Russia's border in order to sieze a vital Russian port, Moscow will be be justified in using all means at its disposal to end the military threat to its existence. History is full of cocky leaders who thought they knew how things would turn out, but were tragically wrong. This is a very dangerous game, and the civil war in Ukraine is none of our business.
Russia is invading a nation on NATO's border.
“History is full of cocky leaders who thought they knew how things would turn out, but were tragically wrong.”
As Wolf Blitzer plainly noted on CNN yesterday, it is now PERSONAL between Obama and Putin.
Given what we already know about Obama’s personality and childish spitefulness, that’s a damned scary thought.