The Ukraine Crisis: Will America Ever Grow Up? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Ukraine Crisis: Will America Ever Grow Up? ~ The Imaginative Conservative There is only one clear winner regardless of the outcome of this crisis and that is China. China will bring Russia ever closer into its orbit as Europe pushes Russia further away. This does not bode well for the future. The whole point of the US opening to China half-a-century ago was to create a new counterweight to the Soviet Union, and for a while that worked. But now it will be the US, along with its European allies, that will have to contend with two belligerent nuclear powers that have grown closer to each other and more suspicious of the West. Time is running out. For all the horrors of war, war sometimes provides an opportunity to fix long-festering problems. If we had the vision and the courage, we could ensure a good outcome that would preserve Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and also assuage Russia’s fears. But that is not likely, even though a decade from now we will find ourselves in a far more precarious global situation, all because we failed to bring Russia into the European fold.