The Avoidable Confrontation with Russia

Our government and its allies keep blundering ahead into confrontations that could have been avoided or minimized.

Jordan Michael Smith reviews the deterioration of U.S.-Russian relations over the last thirty years and how it paved the way for the current crisis:

The wars in Bosnia and especially Kosovo were exceptionally provocative to Russia. The 1999 conflict in Kosovo was the background for a round of NATO expansion, which U.S. leaders had consistently said would…