Christopher Caldwell, in a recent New York Times opinion piece, says that U.S. policy debates over Ukraine prove otherwise. He is wrong.
is more about containing Russian aggression than it is about protecting the sovereignty of Ukraine. Whether or not Ukraine remains a fully sovereign state is not the defining problem. The problem is whether Putin’s losses in Ukraine will deter him from efforts to reclaim the countries of Eastern Europe that were once a part of the Soviet Union. On that, the United States and NATO will win. Because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finland and Sweden have joined NATO.
Because of the invasion, Poland and the Baltic States are actively preparing for war against potential Russian aggression. Because of the invasion, the U.S. is forward-deploying military forces into the countries that border Russia. It is also a major policy triumph for the U.S. that countries of Western Europe are finally increasing their defense budgets after many years of passively relying on the shield of the U.S. military.
Caldwell’s argument that the U.S. is in terminal decline is highlighted by his focus on a new book by Emmanuel Todd. Todd’s book,, predicts U.S. decline by looking at such statistics as infant mortality and the failure to educate a sufficient number of engineers.The U.S. does have an infant mortality problem, but over the last 30 years, the U.S. has reduced the rate of infant mortality by more thanAs for educating engineers, the U.S.
Finally, U.S. foreign policy is not characterized by arrogance. It is characterized by reticence. The U.S. has learned the lessons of Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The U.S. will only become involved in an international crisis when U.S. strategic interests are threatened. James Rogan is a former U.S. foreign service officer who later worked in finance and law for 30 years. He writes
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