Over the last several decades, the United States has abandoned a principled, clear-headed realism and restraint in its foreign policy for interventionist liberal internationalism. This capitulation has led to unnecessary nonstop wars that have squandered trillions of dollars, and resulted in the emotional and physical scarring of our warfighting communities and allies who no longer invest in their own security.
Under President Trump, that complacent foreign policy methodology changed, as his administration unwound our entanglements, most notably in Afghanistan. Under Biden, most regrettably in the uniparty’s Ukraine debacle, the previous foreign policy status quo has been reestablished, leaving America increasingly vulnerable as our adversaries grow stronger.
Primer: The Road Back from War in Ukraine
Indeed, one can recognize Russia as the geopolitical foe that it is and be fully committed to the success of U.S. strategic superiority against it while also recognizing the foreign policy blunders of U.S. and NATO leaders that led to the current war between Russia and Ukraine.
Towards Greater Engagement and Integration with Greenland and a New American Arctic Century
Those preserving U.S. hegemony have always preferred, in the words attributed to Cardinal Richelieu, to have an “iron hand in a velvet glove.” The north is one theater where that priority needs to be restored.
