American media have minimal awareness of the danger of goading the Russian Bear

American commentators lack even a minimal awareness of the circumstances of the eastward push of Nato after 1990. President George H.W. Bush, in return for a united Germany, had promised that Nato would expand ‘not one inch eastward’; and the evacuation of this pledge in the years that followed, under Clinton, the younger Bush and Obama, has rightly been considered a betrayal by every Russian leader from Gorbachev to Putin.

 But the geopolitical common sense of Putin’s comment on Ukraine and Crimea – ‘I do not want to be welcomed in Sevastopol by Nato sailors’ – is almost inscrutable to the US leftist media- from the New York Times and the New Yorker to CNN and MSNBC, nothing has changed in the mentality of the religiously bent leftist media and if come the next Election a Democrat (God forbid) is elected s/he  will be under pressure to mount continuous threats against a nuclear power the Democrats have gone back to calling an adversary.