Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Also, that Russia will draw the line at Ukraine is inevitable because of the existential importance of Ukraine to Russian ability to pursue an independent foreign policy.        Whether or not they have china’s support would make no difference in the end because it is within Russia’s power to seize Ukraine and then stare down the west without China.

Leaving Russia with the Soviet nuclear arsenal and then thinking that very Russian’s aspiration to remain an independent major power can be trivially trampled time and again will probably leave future historian scratching their heads wonder what drugs all successive Americans administration since the Clintons were on.