Since I’m writing about foreign affairs today, let me call your attention to a Center for European Policy Analysis article entitled: “Europe’s New Military Frontline.” The author’s key points are that the new Iron Curtain is much longer than the old one, and much further east, closer to Moscow and St. Petersburg.
This helps explain, though not excuse, V. Putin’s paranoia about an encroaching NATO. Unwilling to “play nicely” with other European powers, and still in thrall to dreams of lost empire, Putin’s situation isn’t enviable, but it is self-inflicted nonetheless.
