JD Vance Gets Mugged by Russian Reality

We've seen presidents and vice presidents come into office before with pie-in-the-sky ideas about how easy it is to bring about world peace if only the mean old United States would stop being such a warmonger. At some point, however, reality tends to intrude. In no case has this been truer than in our Russia policy. Woodrow Wilson, as late as in January 1918, in his "Fourteen Points," declared that "the treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their comprehension of her needs as distinguished ...