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Ross Douthat: We can’t be Ukraine hawks forever

We should know the difference between what is morally ideal and what is strategically achievable

(Finbarr O'Reilly | The New York Times) A column of Ukrainian armored vehicles and soldiers travel near the front lines in the Donetsk region on June 1, 2022. The American plan cannot be to keep writing countless checks while tiptoeing modestly around the Ukrainians and letting them dictate the ends to which our guns and weaponry are used, Ross Douthat writes.