International, National & Minnesota Report
Russia is not a Superpower any longer, its not truly relative to the spinning of the globe, but it can truly become a problem child and requiring a lot of supervision because it has nuclear weapons. Yes, the Russian Bear, is an apt and informative symbol for this eastern power, first established the 16th Century. We thus should remember what we know about bears? They hibernate and Donald J Trump (R) is providing Vladmir Putin the exact opportunity he seeks an ability to retract, lick its wounds, get some rest and come back raging later.
NATO is right to coalesce in light of the American retraction from the European theater. America is not a reliable ally under Trump and it now appears he is complicit with Putin which gives rise to the assertion Putin holds something over Trump’s head and is now collecting.
Via Trump with Putin’s performative renormalization provides a large dosage of credibility and hence derived benefit. If it results in his return to the G-8, it could once again open up a wide range of economic opportunities, unless the European nations prevent it from happening. This necessitates a recodification of NATO and since the entrance of Sweden and Finland the European continent is far more consolidated. The seven former Soviet countries, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, along with Poland are literally buffer countries from Russia and hence the targets of Putin’s recapture will in all likelihood be his future targets. It seems like Ukraine was merely to trial run and because it failed to fall quickly, mainly due to support from the US, and Europe means Putin will need to find a different path. Our only hope that doesn’t mean with American as an ally.