Do you think that defending Ukraine is the existential battle for freedom in our lifetime?
I don’t. Not that I want Vlad the Mad Putin to take over Ukraine, but the US faces much bigger problems than getting involved in a territorial dispute in a country with which we have almost no shared interests.
China says it is ready for ‘any type of war’ with US https://t.co/z77ig3L6y2
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 5, 2025
For over twenty years, presidents have talked about the “pivot to Asia” in US foreign policy, and for over 20 years that pivot never happened.
The reason for all that talk is simple: most of the action in the world economy touches Asia in some way, yet the region is not especially stable politically and militarily. China is an expansionist power, Russia is a player in the Pacific as well as Europe, and territorial disputes are more…
