American Realism in the Russo-Ukrainian War with Rebeccah Heinrichs - on Midrats
define your terms
What path best enhances American security and prosperity, along with her allies, when it comes to the Russo-Ukrainian War?
Are American's interests best promoted by more support of Ukraine's ongoing fight for her independence, or by backing away to let things take their natural course?
Isolationists, realists, and idealists are all trying to make their case as to where to go next as the war moves in to its second year.
What are their arguments, and for those who say they promote a "Realist" policy - how do they define Realism?
Out guest for the full hour this Sunday from 5 to 6pm Eastern to discuss this and related issues she raised in her latest article in National Review, "Who are the Real 'Realists' on Ukraine?" will be Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
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I’ll start with the map, and finish with we are executing a war with a major nuclear power that is existential for Russia, and made it explicit we mean to conquer and dismember Russia.
"natural course"
The natural course concerning Russia and Ukraine, over the 20th century, was famine and millions of dead on three different occasions.
NATO and it's keeping the peace for some 70 years is actually an anomaly in European history with it countless wars over the past two millennia. Is NATO so not the natural course that it sits by and watches wholesale war crimes?