Urgent Foreign Policy Issues Demand Unified Action in Washington
With so many five-alarm fires burning abroad, it’s a good thing the House Foreign Affairs Committee is on the job.
2023, like 2022, 2021, and 2020 before it, is proving to be a year of major challenges, unpleasant surprises, and geopolitical upheaval.
Since the problems faced by the United States and NATO are likely to get worse before they get better, it’s a good thing there are still so many smart, capable lawmakers in Washington.
For the bipartisan House Congressional Committee focused on foreign policy, there is no shortage of fires in need of quelling.
Russia — Ukraine
Like the age-old adage about planting trees, the best time for the United States and NATO to have helped Ukraine was probably in 2014.
Once Russian President Vladimir Putin forcibly annexed Crimea, it was clear Ukraine would be his next move. After 2014, Russia ramped up a ruthless campaign of intimidation, interference, and information warfare against Ukraine.
One of the ways Russia undermined Ukraine in advance of the ultimate invasion which occurred in February of 2022 was via propaganda. All of the former states of the USSR, to varying degrees, grappled with corruption after the fall of the Soviet…