He's right.
"With respect to Mr. Romney's assertion that Russia is our number
one geopolitical foe, the truth of the matter is that America's got
a whole lot of challenges. Russia is a regional power that is
threatening some of its immediate neigbors---not out of strength,
but out weakness.
"Ukraine has been a country in which Russia had enormous influence
for decades, since the break-up of the Soviet Union. And we have
considerable influence on our neighbors, we generally don't need to
invade them in order to have a strong cooperative relationship with
them. The fact that Russia felt compelled to go in militarily and
laid bear these violations of international law indicates less
influence not more.
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