If you want to explain our preoccupation with the region and Russia when China and the pacific should be much more important if we are going to countenance imperial ambitions, you might need to look at the makeup of our government.
The Attorney General, the Treasury Secretary, the SOS, his immediate deputy, and the fourth in line at State who is the point on all this in Ukraine all have something in common. It’s really quite remarkable that in a government as large as ours and in a country as diverse as ours, people with this one thing in common could rise to such a concentration of influential positions.
Not only to they have all that in common, their commonality can be traced back directly to the region in conflict in Europe today. It seems memories of wrongs done to grandma and grandpa are taking precedence over everything else.
