IF WE TOOK THE FOREIGN POLICY rhetoric of Western statesmen at face value, we would have to conclude that Western adults are as neurotic and delusional as so many twentysomething Western youth appear to be.
Obsessed with social media, moral posturing and feelings, the West’s stated policies seem almost comically divorced from any serious assessment of national interests, capabilities and actual needs.
If only there was a “but actually the truth is …” moment. But that’s not going to happen. Because the West is as bad as it looks, for the West acts openly. And our deeds are, if anything, worse than our words: being irresponsible, unworthy of our patrimony and inviting of disaster.
To see where we are we should see where we clearly are not. In the case of Ukraine we are not on the brink of disaster, however much
