Can an aging superpower still control the course of events in eastern Europe, where Russian troops are massing along Ukraine’s border?
We’re about to find out.
The United States is counting on new economic threats and old alliances to deter what it says is a possible plan to invade Ukraine by early next year.
It’s tempting to write the Americans off.
After all, sanctions didn’t make Russia leave Crimea in 2014. And the U.S. position has deteriorated since then on multiple fronts, at home and abroad.
Nowadays the U.S. is preoccupied with China. It not only left a fight with the Taliban,
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