Time to welcome back America's military and foreign policy hawks

Reagan's 'we win, they lose' attitude needs to make a comeback.

Time to welcome back America’s military and foreign policy hawks.

and NATO met with Russian officials over the country’s threatening of Ukraine.

It is a perpetually uncomfortable topic for Democrats that the United States must lead aggressively to counter Russian and Chinese expansion and the destabilizing impact of Islamic terrorism surgically used by those powers to sow instability. .

For Republicans in Washington, the so-called foreign policy hawks have either been run out of town or forced out of the conversation by President Donald Trump and the others’ bashing of so-called “forever wars.” Their absence from the national discussion has been devastating to global perceptions of America’s strength.

Not only has the experiment in Russian democracy failed, but since the beginning of the Obama administration, our desire to keep the former Soviet states independent has largely been a failure as well.

Russian President Vladimir Putin focused on proxy wars and “Fifth Column” attacks for two decades.

Europe’s frayed alliances have made it dependent on Russian energy, soft on Chinese aggression and incapable of exhibiting collective strength without an American commitment to back it up.

If Russia has no intention of invading Ukraine, as they indicated this week, then there is no reason why the United States shouldn’t deploy a limited number of military advisors and advanced defensive weapons to Ukraine.

If Putin isn’t interested in Russian imperialism, then NATO, with the United States’ strong backing, should begin the process of Ukrainian membership. .

America’s military and foreign policy hawks need to rebuild their nests and quick

Official Washington needs to again welcome the hawks back into the policymaking conversation, lest the doves get the free world shot out of the sky.