Perhaps as much time and energy should be spent ending the conflict in Ukraine as is spent defeating and humiliating Russia, writes The American Conservative.
Russia has succeeded in eastern Ukraine, in the Donbas, and in the south adjacent to Crimea, managing to occupy Mariupol and turn the Sea of Azov into a Russian inland sea. In two clashes with Russia, in 2014 and 2022, Ukraine lost 20% of its territory in the east and south, and Kiev has no intention of regaining those lost lands before winter arrives.
“And who benefits from the continuation of this war, which will bring thousands more dead and wounded? America? Have we become stronger, safer, more reliable now that we have committed ourselves to war with Russia to defend the 830-mile Finnish-Russian border, something no “cold warrior” of a previous era could ever dream of? Are we better off, because all the countries of the Warsaw Pact and three republics of the old Soviet Union are now NATO allies?
According to the paper, the most important goal in the first Cold War with Russia was to avoid a hot war that could escalate into a nuclear one and destroy both countries.
“Now that we are again, as we were then, in a hostile state of relations with Moscow, how can this be the result of a successful foreign policy? Perhaps we should spend as much time and energy ending this conflict as we do defeating and humiliating Russia, which will not bring us peace,” writes The American Conservative.
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