The Patriot Post® · U.S. Troops to Poland

“U.S. Army paratroopers are arriving in Poland to begin a series of military exercises in four countries across Eastern Europe to bolster allies in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula last month,” the Associated Press reports. It’s the latest in the unfolding trouble in Ukraine. The bottom line is that the time to have contained Vladimir Putin was to continue George W. Bush’s policy of containment five years ago, rather than Barack Obama’s love-fest “reset” engagement. This is a “Cold War chess game” despite Obama’s comments to the contrary.