Last year, in a speech at the Quincy Institute, JD Vance argued that Washington tends to link the Israeli and Ukrainian causes but that we should consider them separately. That has seemed to be the approach of the Trump administration.

The Free Press asked me to debate Eli Lake over whether it made sense to treat these conflicts differently. I argued in defense of Vance, and of considering them two different conflicts rather than two theaters in the defense of one U.S.-led world order.