We have just passed the one-year mark of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The president went to Kyiv in an effort to demonstrate support for Ukraine and President Zelenskyy.

The headlines and toll of the war provokes some big questions, such as where in the world do we go from here?

Zelenskyy is clear, he wants his nation to made whole—regaining all the territory that the Russians have threatened or invaded and, in some cases, now occupied.

To state the matter clearly, that is not likely to happen.

Gerard Baker writing in the Wall Street Journal asks a great question: “Will the Ukraine War Push the West Toward a New Realism?” 

The alternative to realism is what's called idealism—two poles that have defined American foreign policy. 
 
Gerard Baker writes: “… privately, the president needs to convey some of that hard-headed realism he claims he's brought to more than half a century of foreign-policy debates. Ukraine has every right to defend its territory, but it doesn't have a right to American money and material to prosecute a conflict without end.”

A dose of hard-headed realism is what we need.