Quote Originally Posted by OUTLAW 09 View Post
So I am hard pressed to understand why this WH thought diplomacy was all one needed for soft power.
None of us here can, especially guys like you and JMA. You come from a different world than they do, a wholly different world. What you guys know to be true about the world because you've seen it and smelled it, they have never seen or even read about. If they did read about it they wouldn't believe it.

Our problem is Putin and the Red Chinese understand them perfectly.