In another very good article on the subject of the Russian invasion of Georgia Rich Tucker wrote:
Instead of answering force with force, Germany’s leader responded to Russia’s attack with meetings and words. “We very much want the six-point plan to be implemented very promptly so that Russian troops are no longer in Georgia, outside Abkhazia and South Ossetia,” Chancellor Angela Merkel announced after meeting the Russian president.
All well and good. But that’s not what the Russians want, and they’re the ones driving tanks and holding guns.
The West is going to learn a difficult lesson in the years ahead: People with hard power don’t respect soft power.
...Soft power is a smokescreen that countries with no power deploy. Russia’s military has created a gentle breeze that’s blowing the smokescreen away. It’s not too late for America’s NATO allies to wake up and rearm. But they need to wake up and move quickly.
-Rich Tucker
I sure hope we wake up. The doves won't win the day. I'm afraid that it is the season of the hawk.
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