Yes, Russia Is a Threat to the United States | Opinion Alexis Mrachek , Researcher, The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for Foreign Policy On 4/21/21 at 11:00 AM EDT
In 1853, British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston observed, The policy and practice of the Russian Government has always been to push forward its encroachments as fast and as far as the apathy or want of firmness of other Governments would allow it to go, but always to stop and retire when it met with decided resistance and then to wait for the next favorable opportunity.
Palmerston s statement rings as true today as it did then. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and occupies Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) to this day. It forcibly seized and annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and, seven years later, still has troops in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The recent military buildup along the Ukrainian border and in