“Moscow is clearly pursuing two goals simultaneously: territorial gains in Ukraine as part of the revanchist ambition to restore the Soviet-era sphere of influence and, more importantly, degrading American strategic prominence, with the goal of driving the United States out of Europe.
China and Iran are happy to cheer this on. What is at stake is therefore much more than the legitimacy of Ukrainian independence, as important as that is. We are facing a hot war as part of the global competition between the United States and its strategic opponents.
It is striking how much the Trump Administration got right, against the shrill opposition of the liberal foreign policy establishment.”
The article includes this statement, badly needed to be said and spread:
“We need to be clear: Merkel led the free world into a catastrophe.”