Michael McFaul, opportunist and Timothy Snyder book lover society president ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhgWLmd7mCo ) is at it again.
Hoover Institution at its best.
The NSS is heavily oriented toward the Western Hemisphere—something former Trump administration official Alexander Gray calls “logical” prioritization (Letters, Dec. 11). But the Western Hemisphere doesn’t pose the primary threat to U.S. security—China, Russia and their autocratic allies do. To pretend the Chinese threat in Asia and the Russian threat in Europe can be ignored as we turn our attention to Venezuela feels like 1930s-era foolishness.
Elsewhere, the document insults our European allies, while offering nothing concrete to strengthen our ties to them or other partners in Asia. During the Cold War, our geopolitical friendships were a major comparative advantage over the Soviets. We will need strong, loyal, enduring allies again to compete effectively with China and Russia this century. Opinion polls show that most people worldwide prefer democracy to dictatorship. Better to use this to advantage against adversaries rather than throw it away.
The good news is that the NSS should spark a healthy debate about the purposes of American power. Public opinion polls again show that the American people value allies, don’t support Mr. Trump’s embrace of Vladimir Putin, and want to give more support to democratic Ukraine. The president’s fatalistic assumption that this NSS represents an immutable pivot toward unilateralism and isolationism, with no regard for values is premature.
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Hes probably in with a decent chance, if russia paying for their own war becomes a reality.
The electorate loves those kinds of displays of idiocy.
