Delusions die hard. The obsession of American foreign policy after the fall of communism was pro-Western democracy in Russia, and the foreign policy establishment has never forgiven Vladimir Putin for returning Russia to the sort of authoritarian governance it has endured for all but a few brief years of its history. The obsession is back with Joe Biden – and, with it, the neoconservatives who dominated the failed administration of George W Bush. For several reasons, President Biden’s March 16...



















