Now that the Russians aren’t communists the left doesn’t like them

They fell all over themselves making excuses for Stalin’s domination of half of Europe at the end of the Second World War.

And now?

Hostile, hostile.

Anything Russian 'in czarist times' is fair game in Putin's mind

Reifowitz - a Polish name? Jewish? Both? - exaggerates.

Poles hate Russia (which, despite Brzezinski, is not a reason why Americans should), and Jews hate the very aspects of the old Russia that Putin seems to emphasize and wish to, in some measure, revive.

But maybe, at least figuratively, Putin does consider "fair game" anything that was Russian at the end of The Great War.

That would not include the Baltic States or Poland, for instance.

But it would include the Ukraine.

In any event, none of our affair.

NATO, today, is a mistake and the argument for ignoring that treaty altogether is much better than Seidman’s argument for ignoring the US Constitution.