OPINION:
Some conservatives have questioned Ukraine’s importance to America, as if it were a small, remote country of no strategic value. But in fact Ukraine is Russia’s broad gateway to Europe. And Europe is the first target of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s coalition of rogue states.
Like Napoleon and Hitler, Mr. Putin aims to overthrow the existing international order. U.S. must defend Ukraine It was conservative Russia, in fact, that stopped revolutionary France, and the USSR that turned back revisionist Germany. But today it is Russia that is challenging the international order — and we who must defend it.
ANDREW SOROKOWSKI
Rockville
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