After 26 years of using the Department of Defense as our foreign policy, we’ve forgotten how to deal with countries that aren’t intimidated by us. We need to get statecraft back. Is Ukraine really an “extraordinary threat to the national security of the United States”?
At the beginning of the Crimea showdown, geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer of the Eurasia Group told Business Insider the West could do very little besides protest if Russia decided to invade the strategic Ukrainian peninsula and/or Crimea seceded to Russia. Read more here.