It’s clear that this is what Putin has in mind. He has amassed huge numbers of troops and his forces are now pushing back hard. Without strong U.S. support for Ukraine, there’s a good chance Putin’s latest offensive will succeed and that others will follow. In this case, the biggest story of 2023 might be Putin’s comeback .
Should the U.S. provide that support to Ukraine? Is it in our national interest?
I think it’s self-evidentially in our interest for an adversary with a large amount of power and superpower ambitions to suffer a clear and humiliating defeat when it seeks territorial expansion, where this can be accomplished without active U.S. military involvement and loss of American lives.
[Paul goes into a lengthy analysis of Sen. Tom Cotton’s op-ed in the WSJ, mainly in agreement with its points. I largely agree with both. However, it doesn’t mean that skeptics have raised good questions about how we’ve gotten here and the risks involved in remaining an arsenal for Kyiv. I think the risks of an imperial Russia outweighs those risks, but I also know that those risks aren’t a fantasy. — Ed]
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