As the U.S. president sends our troops to Eastern Europe, how will they deal with this crucial fact?

As the U.S. president sends our troops to Eastern Europe, how will they deal with this crucial fact?
The New York Times marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a photo essay, and quotes historian Anne Applebaum saying, βIt was not a triumph of good over evil. It was basically incompetence β and chance.β Bill Whittle, Stephen Green and Scott Ott remember it differently.
Aleksandr Solzhentisyn, who saw the starvation and brutality of The Gulag Archipelago, said “prosperity breeds idiots.” That helps to explain the existence of AOC, Bernie Sanders and other so-called social-democrats and Progressives.