Paul Craig Roberts: Can War With Russia Be Avoided?

Paul Craig Roberts: "...I don't think that Putin's policy of restraint and non-confrontation (towards the United States) has been successful. Putin's good intentions are not reciprocated by Washington. I think Putin's responsible behavior encourages more aggressive accusations and more aggressive military maneuvers. At some point, the West is going to go too far, and there's going to be no alternative to Russia than to take a more major kind of response. And that's where the danger is."

Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist and a columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and was noted as a co-founder of Reaganomics. Dr. Roberts is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He has testified before congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy. He has penned a dozen books, most recently The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State. You can find his latest articles at his website, Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy.