This is the most important comment I have heard this week — Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk:
“500 million Europeans are asking 300 million Americans to defend them against 140 million Russians […] Europe, if there is something we lack today, it is not economic or demographic power, but the belief that we are truly a global force.”
I think Tusk hits the bullseye here. Those 140 million Russians are already fully occupied by fighting Ukraine, and our leaders act like we are Liechtenstein.
@randahl
Even before sanctions Russia's per-capita GDP was smaller than Romania's. Total GDP smaller than Canada or Brazil. The only thing that enables them to be a military power at all is dictatorship. No free people would allow itself to be so disproportionately militarized and impoverished.
