Fact: The Hudson Institute is riddled with neocons.
The author of this article should get a promotion and medal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Labour_(GDR)
This isn’t news as nothing was new and all he did was string together a bunch of slogans no differently than in the East during the Cold War where they would defend their ridiculous position by calling us names and pretending they we virtuous as they were invading other countries.
Here’s a simple fact, if you want the moral high ground, you need to have a “just war” and there are some established ideas about what that is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_war_theory
Expansionist and offensive (yes, us expanding NATO all along their border is seen as a threat by them), expeditionary, and economically motivated conflicts hardly ever qualify.