Commentary: The real threat to liberalism is the U.S.' unwillingness to defend it
"The liberal idea has become obsolete," Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Financial Times in an eye-opening interview. It would be easy to dismiss this declaration of liberalism's demise, considering the messenger.
That would be a mistake. Putin has spent the better part of two decades centralizing his own power at home while actively undermining liberal institutions abroad. But it is the failure of the United States and its allies to adequately defend liberalism that is the
