Back in May of last year, I outlined the reasons why the United States should support Ukraine in resisting the Russian invasion. Briefly, Russia under Vladimir Putin has for the last 20 years made itself a global adversary of the United States by launching cyberattacks and sponsoring cyber-syndicate crime, threatening NATO allies in Europe, wreaking havoc in Syria, supporting Iran in its regional ambitions, and expressing in word and deed its “unlimited friendship” for China, which is a peer competitor of the United States with designs on global hegemony.
It was therefore very much in America’s interest to frustrate Russia’s ambitions in Europe and weaken the will and power of the Russian state to threaten the United States elsewhere. Supporting Ukraine had the additional advantage of putting us on the side of the good guys in resisting an unprovoked invasion that has been conducted with the savagery that characterizes Vladimir Putin’s approach to the world.
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