>Ukraine crisis: US accuses Russia of planning ‘false flag’ attack
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Once Ukraine has been dealt with, America should turn its attention to Russia. It will probably not be possible to remove Putin quickly without a U.S. invasion and occupation--though it will hardly require half a million men, since Putin's army is much diminished since the Cold War, and we will probably have plenty of help from the Russian people, once they trust that we intend to finish the job this time.
Once we have deposed Putin, we can impose an American-led, international regency in Moscow, to go along with the one in Kiev. With American seriousness and credibility thus restored, we will enjoy fruitful cooperation from the region's many opportunists, who will show a newfound eagerness to be helpful in our larger task of rolling up the international terror network that threatens us.
And so the U.S. would move on from its disastrous interventions of the past thirty years. It would be the end of the Atlanticist, pro-Russian, neo-imperialist world that has dominated U.S. foreign policy since World War II and the beginning of a world that is more secure, stable, and prosperous.
Impossible as it may seem, America has a historic opportunity to steer its own course in the post-Cold War world, and to end the destructive path that it has followed for the last quarter century.
Is this an ambitious agenda? Without a doubt. Does America have the resources to carry it out? Also without a doubt. Does America have the will? That is an open question. But who, on December 6, 1941, would have expected that in four years' time America would not only roll back German and Japanese aggression, but also occupy Tokyo and Berlin and impose liberal democracy where dictators had long held sway? And fewer American lives were lost on December 7, 1941, than on September 11, 2001.
