The Baltic powder keg

  • 2016-01-27
  • Aaron Bateman
The “Pacific Pivot” has been a catch phrase of the Obama Administration that is intended to signal a refocusing of American military power and influence away from the Middle East and into the Pacific region. Nevertheless, the increasingly violent Syrian civil war and the growing threat from Russian aggression in the former Soviet space is challenging the wisdom of reconcentrating America’s military might into a region that is of strategic and economic importance, but is not teetering on the edge of war. Regrettably, the escalating tension on Russia’s Western border h...
 
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