Putinology

The saturnine David P. Goldman, blogging as Spengler, damns the Obamacrats for mistaking what they wish were true for what is true. He ends by recommending big expenditures on weaponry as that defeated the Soviet Union and could work against Putin. In other words...

If you would have peace, prepare for war. 

The above quote is attributed to the Roman author Vegetius, as true today as when written two millennia ago.