"We have to accept we’re in a war". "The truth is that fighting a new Cold War would be in America’s interest."
-- This is typical neocon madness. The truth is should NATO stop eastward expansion, more specifically, stop eastward expansion by using American taxpayer's money, leaving a piece of buffer area between western and Russia, all parties will be fine.
"It’s also important to acknowledge that a more isolated, more nationalist America helps Putin in his objectives even while it compromises our own. We need to accept that America was part of, and needs to be part of, a global system — and that this system is better, cheaper, and more powerful than any imagined alternatives"
--No doubt the author is a globalist, or in term of liberal discourse, an internationalist.
"Rebuilding American power — based on the values of liberal democracy — is the only escape from Putin’s corrosive vision of a world at permanent war"
--again, neocon, use American taxpayer money to spread democracy all over the world.
BTW, anybody (particularly conservatives) who know a little bit history understand that when Russia was ruled by communist dictators (USSR), the left actually loved it (Sanders' honeymoon in Russia...), similar to today's Justin Trudeau's compliment to Cuba's Castro. Now in post-Soviet global/internationalism age the leftists have become liberal, a tough, politically incorrect and nationalist Putin therefore becomes their #1 enemy.