On Books

I am reading The Next 100 Years by George Friedman. In the "Russia 2020" he points out the importance of Poland as a buffer between Western Europe and Russia on the Northern European Plain. He purposes that the United States will come to the aid of Poland if Russia flexes her muscles in the direction of Poland and the Baltic states. I was struck by how wrong he might turn out to be if Obama remains in office past 2012 or if the threat is made before he leaves office in 2012. Obama has already canceled missile defense system for Eastern Europe that was promised by the Bush administration. It was to be sited in Poland and the Czech Republic particularly. Friedman predicts a geopolitical scenario for the next 100 years in which the United States remains a world power. I posit that if Obama remains in the White House and the Democrats maintain control of Congress, the United States is going to completely collapse under the weight of overwhelming debt and underwhelming support for our allies around the world.