Right Again, Unfortunately, On Russia
Right Again, Unfortunately, On Russia Paleocons were right about endless wars in the Middle East, right about the dangers of a rising China and have, disappointingly, been proven right again. Pat Buchanan campaigning in the 1990s. (Photo by © Wally McNamee/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) FEBRUARY 24, 2022 BRADLEY DEVLIN As Russia began its drive into Ukraine on several fronts overnight, neoconservatives and right-liberals tried to lay the blame for the invasion at the feet of American nationalists and paleoconservatives. They’ve labeled restrainers Russian stooges, or variations of the term, and preemptively impugned them for what some already describe in terms of an impending Holocaust . Their deep well of historical analogies never ceases to impress. While the hawks would like you to believe that recent developments in Ukraine have discredited the paleoconservative position, it has proven quite the opposite. For decades, this magazine and a coalition of foreign policy restrainers ha