The same goes for Russia. The Obama regime is committed to containing the Putin regime, which, in turn, is committed to containing the Obama regime.

This counter-containment policy is one in which the respective parties need each other and thrive off each other. It's all quite a racket, one in which each party to the containment battle necessarily depends on the actions of the other party to justify increasing its power and influence and expanding its own deadly actions.

This containment policy is not new. It's actually just a repeat of the Cold War containment policy that the U.S. government adopted in the 1950s to justify the existence of the national-security state apparatus that was grafted onto our original federal government structure after World War II.