No riddle here.

Editor,

Russia is a sparsely populated, underdeveloped country that possesses enormous mineral and hydrocarbon wealth.

Despite George H.W. Bush's verbal promise to Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand NATO onto Russia's doorstep, pushing NATO up against Russia's nose is precisely what the USA has done, under exactly what pretext is not clear.

Does the EU's offer to rape -- I mean assist --- Ukriane with loans predicated on economic austerity and cooperation on matters of "security" mean that Ukraine, the doorway through which Napoleon, the Kaiser, and Hitler all invaded Russia, will be incorporated into NATO?

Would the USA welcome Russian military bases in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean?

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, especially if you are Vladamir Putin , who is being demonized in the American press as the next Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, and Slobodan Milošević all rolled into one.

Re: "3 Presidents and a Riddle Named Putin" (3/24/2014)