What's the Game Plan?

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"What is there to take over a country, and you've levelled it so that you're just bouncing the rubble? What's the game plan?" he asks. "You have t that the problem you have is exactly the problem we ad you." He says if russia continues to be isolated they are going to get isolated. And their only source of support is china. But once you have i see a really dark time for russia, unless there is a humongos change in government,. which i do not anticipatey ok yo u, you've worked for the state department, am you'd consulted with the state department and other government agencies? Let's just run a hypothetical

Michael Shermer speaks with Professor of International Relations, Dr. Jacek Kugler, about his Power Transition Theory which states that an even distribution of political, economic, and military capabilities between contending groups of states is likely to increase the probability of war; peace is preserved best when there is an imbalance of national capabilities between disadvantaged and advantaged nations; the aggressor will come from a small group of dissatisfied strong countries; and it is the weaker, rather than the stronger power that is most likely to be the aggressor.

Shermer and Kugler discuss: Power Transition Theory and how it applies to Putin and Russia today; the relationship between a nation’s economic strength and its political power; where China figures into the future of the new world order; what happens if Putin succeeds in Ukraine? What if he fails?; What should the U.S. should have done in response to the annexation of Crimea, intervention in Syria, the destruction of Georgia and Chechnya, the imprisonment and murder of Russian dissidents?; What should NATO do now or in the near future?; and more…