Christopher A. Preble
Security, Europe
What should Americans be willing to risk, and to spend, to affirm Ukraine’s territorial integrity?
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson committed what amounts to an unconscionable sin in the eyes of many foreign policy watchers when he wondered aloud two weeks ago during a meeting in Lucca, Italy, “Why should U.S. taxpayers be interested in Ukraine?”
The Washington Post’s Anne Applebaum responded with an emphatic, “Yes, Rex Tillerson, U.S. Taxpayers Should Care,” but conceded, with an eye to Tillerson’s corporate roots:
There is no calculation, no balance sheet that can prove any of this. There is nothing that would …read more
Source: The National Interest
