Saturday, March 1, 2014

Ukraine

Russia has authorized the use of force to intervene in Ukraine. So, it's official, Russia is going to move troops into Ukraine. How extensive is the incursion going to be and what is the outcome they are seeking? Good questions and only time will tell. What will the U.S. do? Considering the weakness of the U.S. at this point, not much. As I wrote earlier, these kinds of issues need to be prevented through deterrence. You have to demonstrate power and a willingness to use it early on in order to dissuade rogue nations for seeking to exploit weakness. Unfortunately the U.S. has been demonstrating (since 2008) that it is weak and will not do much if a rogue nation wants to exploit an opportunity.

What do you think?

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