Ukraine Thread

[Brenus]

"Edward Luttwak is a CSIS senior associate and has served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force, and a number of allied governments as well as international corporations and financial institutions." Does this answer your question?
And what really an article dated from March 2014 is more relevant now than at the time? The opinion of a clearly not neutral "analyst", the kind of who are good to explain the future after it became the past.