Jonah Goldberg's gone intellectual on us. He is now the expert on foreign affairs lecturing us on "the logic of false equivalency." Way beyond my intellectual gifts. Does he mean NATO and the remnants of the Soviet Union can't be compared? Or is that too simplistic? Goldberg used to be pro Trump's foreign policies, known as "The Rapport with Despots and Killers" which resulted in spectacular successes like giving Afghanistan to the Taliban and getting everyone's favorite cuddly tyrant Kim Jong-un to have a friendly tete-a-ete in the Shangrila Hotel in Singapore. Kim took the example of Trump to heart and has now slimmed down and is setting about policies which should kill a few million of his people. Poor Mr. Putin now seems at a loss. Had his coup, is in complete control, KGB, state security, army, tycoons, judges, police, media outlets, all under his thumb. Trump tried to do that but wasn't good at it. Putin rules an economy the size of Italy but with lots of nukes and he's a killer. The Soviet Union took on the US before and it didn't end well for them. US policy? Softly, softly. Let tyrants stew in their own juices. Hopefully it pickles them... eventually.