Henry Kissinger: “One's effort should be not to break up Russia, but to retain Russia in the system in some fashion.”

What is occurring is more than a coincidence of individual crises across various geographies. Rather, it is a systemic failure of world order.

We have successfully defeated the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), but the question now is the succession, what happens next.

For us, the problem is hegemony by any one country over Eurasia is a potential threat to our security.

History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes.