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Alexander Vindman’s The Folly of Realism is a bracing primer about this catastrophic conflict and its implications for what used to be called the free world

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Foreign-policy 'realists' believe that the international order is governed by power and the pursuit of national interests.

The callousness of this approach to international relations can be observed with painful clarity in America ’s looming betrayal of Ukraine .

In The Folly of Realism , Alexander Vindman has written a bracing primer about this catastrophic conflict and its implications for the free world.

The West ignored warnings about Ukraine 's special status in Russia ’s imperial identity, writes Andrew Hammond .

Hammond: By deferring to Russia 's size and strength, it undermined Ukrainian sovereignty.

Hammond argues that the Russia -centrism of US policy led directly to the Crimea annexation and eastern invasion of 2014 and then the full-scale invasion of 2022 .