Mattis is in Ukraine expressing his support for supplying Ukraine with advanced weapons. Trump will decide this. In the article’s photo, Poroshenko is all smiles. Mattis’s comments on this issue are all wrong. He doesn’t think this is an escalation, but of course it’s an escalation. He doesn’t forecast what Russia might do in response, but he should. He doesn’t understand that in the event of renewed hostilities (they’ve actually never fully stopped), Russia will escalate in support of Donbass and Crimea. He doesn’t mention that this is a threat to Russian territory in Crimea, but it is. Mattis doesn’t … Continue reading More Foreign Policy Bad News