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Wonder whether this is the inevitable outcome of the us attitude to the rest of the world. yes, added to your list is putin having observed the disastrous us withdrawal from afghanistan. and concluding that the united states at the moment does not have the stomach that any kind of military pushback. what we should be doing is putting force on the table, support for ukraine, support for our eastern allies so that russia sees that and make clear we have a willingness to use that force if we are forced to do so. but as we do not want to do so. and that we are also prepared to back down again if r...

Ukraine. what do you make of that? the russians are saying a lot of things, they did say we have no plans to invade, they did not say they had no intention. but he also said that the security of the west and nato would be threatened if there is no flexibility on the nato side, no agreement. the russians are still threatening, and what they are threatening is violence or aggression if they do not get the west to agree to rewrite the rules of security in europe as the white house set. it is exactly what we are looking for, they want to have dominance over ukraine, sphere of influence, they want ...

Century we're living in. almost all of these critics ridicule john kerry's assertion that changing borders by force, as russia did, is 19th century behavior in the 21st century. well, here are the facts. the scholar mark zacker has tallied up changes of borders by force. something that was once quite common. since world war 1, he notes, it has been on a sharp decline, and in recent dedicates that decline has accelerated. before 1950 wars between nations would result in border changes, that is, annexations, 81% of the time. after 1950 that number dropped to 27%. in fact, since 1946 there are on...