Peace in Ukraine and the realities of geopolitics

However, strategic, and political realities create a geopolitical nexus between the interests of the United States and democratic Europe that even doubters in the Trump administration, as well as others on both sides of the Atlantic, cannot pretend to notice. Political reality and strategic necessity dictate that the United States and democratic Europe must stand firm against the attempt by Russia to relitigate the history of the post-Cold War world and return to a new world order of great power competition. Dumping the memories of the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment into the dustbin of history, and forgetting the costs of the twentieth century as a “century of total war,” Europeans will relive their worst nightmares instead of reaching their full twenty-first century potential.

Author: Stephen J. Cimbala, Lawrence J. Korb, Real Clear Wire

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