Friday, March 7, 2014

Obama, Russia, and the Wages of Weakness | National Review Online

Obama, Russia, and the Wages of Weakness | National Review Online: "Obama says Putin is on the wrong side of history and Secretary of State John Kerry says Putin’s is “really 19th-century behavior in the 21st century.” 




This must mean that seeking national power, territory, dominion — the driving impulse of nations since Thucydides — is obsolete. As if a calendar change caused a revolution in human nature that transformed the international arena from a Hobbesian struggle for power into a gentleman’s club where violations of territorial integrity just don’t happen."



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