Foreign wars

Let’s create a deeply conversant team of American and Russian history professors to provide advice to all political decision makers and the press.

Fact: The U.S. violated the German reunification understanding that NATO would not, in James Baker’s words, advance “one inch” past the East German border. First violated by Bill Clinton.

Fact: Bush II terminated the 1972 ABM treaty and advanced NATO.

Fact: In Imperial Russia/Soviet Russia, 60-76 million perished from all causes, 26 million in WWII.

Fact: The U.S. population in 1900 was 76 million plus; hence the equivalent of between 79 and 100 percent of the 1900 U.S. population perished in Russia.

How has U.S. involvement in foreign wars of choice worked out since the 1991 formation of the Russian Federation?

“There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare - who wishes to fight must first count the cost.” Sun Tzu, Art of War 500 B.C.

Gerald Weitz

Viola, Idaho