Thibaud,

Help the Russians, now. Retrain and help reform their military. Pay them whatever sum they need to cease all support and aid to Iran.

Oh boy… I’m not particularly proud of the sentiment I’m about to express. It’s what I’ll call the Worst Acceptable Case Scenario (the worst case scenario being that we don’t win short of full-scale, blow ‘em up and shoot ‘em and burn ‘em till they can’t fight any more).

This scenario is that by fighting vigorously we accomplish something similar to what the appeasers in Europe have been trying to accomplish. In the case of the appeasers they’ve counted on the Islamomurderers to leave them alone and attack the US. In my Worst Acceptable Case Scenario, the Islamomurderers decide that fighting us is a losing battle and far too expensive and turn their murdering attentions elsewhere (Europe and Russia and the edges of China and India being the “elsewhere”).

It might be a good idea to help train the Russian military but that seems to me something similar to training a future enemy. I’d rather have them fight their own battles in their own, inept way. The Russians won’t lose to the Islamomurderers any more than we will, but I don’t think its a good idea to help them win at our own expense.

Realpolitick. Ugly (by nicey-nice standards) on a good day.