Tag Archives: Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Revisiting the “Reset” and Russian Expansion into Crimea

Posted on March 11, 2014 by William R. Hawkins

Putin has every reason to think that the Ukraine crisis will pass as did the Georgia crisis. And President Xi Jinping in Beijing will be watching as well, calculating how far to push in Asia. What is being reset is the map of the world.

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American Cowboy Diplomacy is the Only Defense Against Commissar Diplomacy

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield

Sarah Palin understood in 2008 what the school of foreign policy “realists” did not, that Georgia was not significant in isolation but as a prerequisite to the invasion of Ukraine and likewise Ukraine should be understood in the context of an imperial territorial ambition that stretches far beyond its borders.

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