President Trump’s decision to vote with Russia against a United Nations resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine capped a dizzying and dismaying two weeks for American foreign policy.
To begin, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited Europe with the same aim that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had when he visited Munich in 1938: appeasement. Representing the »art of the deal« administration, Mr. Hegseth offered Russian President Vladimir Putin much of what he wanted before negotiations had even begun: no return to Ukraine’s pre-2014 borders, no North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership for Ukraine, and no direct American troop participation in security guarantees for Ukraine.
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