I’d say we’ve lost the first round. We had hoped that Russia would be a partner in making a better world. I’m reading the sequel to “Pentagon’s New Map” and that’s the way the story was supposed to run. Guess Putin didn’t read that book. This invasion was a real game-changer.

We may need to retreat a step (or steppe) or two and fall back to a defensible line. A long run goal must be “Sticking it to Gazprom”. Look for an article in AmericanThinker.com shortly.

The really nasty thing we could do TODAY is announce the US-subsidized sale of a CANDU reactor to Poland. Does Russia REALLY want to play the proxy proliferation game?