Surveying the national landscape in 2020 for an edited volume called The American Crisis, the journalist Anne Applebaum, who reliably conveys establishment thinking, concluded that "We are a failed democracy, even a failed state."
Within just the last few weeks Applebaum's outlook has changed.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine finds Applebaum, who holds dual U.S. and Polish citizenship, eager to have at the Russkies.
While not going so far as to call for direct U.S. military intervention, she leaves no doubt that Ukraine has become "Our" war, and rightly so.
Applebaum cites Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov: "This is not about Ukraine at all, but the world order. The current crisis is a fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history. It reflects the battle over what the world order will look like." In short, the implications of the fighting in Ukraine will be fraught with cosmic significance.
Victory, according to Applebaum, "will embolden "Citizens of existing democracies and members of the democratic opposition in Russia, Cuba, Belarus, and Hong Kong." Regarding the West's response "There is only one rule: We cannot be afraid."
For anyone curious as to the origins of the "American crisis" to which Applebaum alluded in 2020, misbegotten wars such as Iraq just might offer a good point of reference.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/war-is-no-solution/
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