The American Conservative

No matter what one thinks about the alliance, halting its continued, mindless expansion should be the priority for the U.S.

Giving formal recognition to one side’s claim while completely ignoring the other isn’t a “recognition” of reality.

Reviving talk of Georgia’s future NATO membership today is irresponsible and dangerous.

“Reclaiming” realism means dubbing hard-line policies as realist and throwing most actual realist arguments out the window.

When he sides with authoritarian leaders against their domestic opposition, Trump is unfortunately not so different from his predecessors.

Obama has gone out of his way to try to placate and indulge them even when they behave appallingly.

Adding Montenegro to NATO is unnecessary and serves no real purpose.

It often seems to be the case that another country’s most vocal and enthusiastic boosters here at home have the worst ideas for what U.S. policy towards that country ought to be.

It would be reckless and cruel to encourage Georgia down the same path that has already done so much damage to the country.

It does Georgia no favors to maintain the illusion that NATO membership is available to them when it isn’t.

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It is neither moral nor wise for the U.S. to pick sides in a foreign civil war, and virtually all realists warned against U.S. involvement in Syria from the start.

Montenegro adds nothing to the alliance.

Hard-liners continue to invoke the plight of the people in other countries while advocating for policies that harm them.

Jeb Bush isn’t even pretending to support foreign policy restraint.

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