2017 - War with Russia

The Russo-Georgian war of 2008 was like the occupation of the Rhineland in the 1930s, but as then, we did not pay attention to the ominous omens. Then, in 2014, Putin occupied the Crimean peninsula, just as Hitler occupied the Sudetenland, but we quickly got over that too. Since then, Russia has attacked Ukraine, and the Baltics could be next... Retired NATO General Sir Richard Shirreff asks, based on decades of military experience, what will happen if the world's leading powers continue to not take the arrogant policy of the Russian president seriously, if they continue to sit back and delude themselves that their nuclear weapons will protect them from Putin's aggression. Will NATO remain in the background? Will the political forces of Europe act more strictly, and most importantly, will the new president of the United States take a more decisive position than his predecessor? One way or another, 2017 could be the turning point...