For those of you who have read my second book, The Absent Superpower, recent events in Ukraine should not come as a surprise. Chapter 6, The Twilight War, lays out how Russian geography and demographic realities would dictate Russian aggression in its immediate periphery. This is not a justification of Moscow's aggression against its neighbor, but international watchers should not be feigning surprise.
George Friedman, Ph.D., founder and chairman of Geopolitical Futures, Author: The Storm Before the Calm, discusses Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
There seems little doubt that war breeds corruption. Dollars that should go to building a strong military force are often sidelined into individual pockets. Afghanistan is a ”glaring” example of this with government employees and even the military benefiting from aid dollars.
Will China and the United States avoid war? Join our experts to hear their very divergent points of view and why the history of China "should" at the very least make us vigilant about the future.
