My nephew is a pretty smart guy.  He is the one with a Notre Dame M.B.A. and works rather high up in the environmental industry (and once was a John Glenn aid for about six years).  Anyway, he is one of the "outside Talkmarkets" that i send many of my blogs to "for comment" (something that i say is lacking from Talkmarkets itself).

Anyway, he responded and said.  "We'll just have to wait and see.  He didn't see any chance of world peace as long as Putin was around."

Here is my response to that kind of thinking.

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Putin will have to "cave".  He has "no other" choice.  

One thing i am pretty sure of is this:  "U.S. military capabilities far exceed those of any other country or in effect "group of countries" in the world.  Take "nukes" out of the equation (which is pretty much been the strategy all along) and guess what you get?  You get the fact that you do not want to take on any country that the United States supports because if the people of that country want to stand up against you, you will have the strongest military force in the world backing them--and that would not be a good strategy.

These statements, like the one in the NY Times, are "dribbled out" with timing.  You know that as well as i do.  The statement made is simply a warning of our future strategy--giving Putin another chance to negotiate before he loses Crimia militarily (even if takes a couple of years to do it--which i doubt if it would.

I sure would not want to be in an area where there were a bunch of Russia soldiers.  I think we have ways to hit targets like that.

Don't be such a pessimist.  War is ugly and bad.  And Biden is trying to put War to rest.