Kristol’s the face of everything we hate about the Republican Establishment...he's leader of the ‘most obnoxious wing...’
That said, while Russia IS the excuse the Kristol/McCain types use to shake the taxpayer money tree and to over-fund the Deep State... we have to be careful NOT to let the pendulum swing to far.
Communism's not our friend... BUT they're also not the Bogeyman. Truth is somewhere in between.
Putin runs a country with a GDP about the size of Italy... he's foe - but NOT monstrous foe. He's not worth funding a massive paranoid surveillance State BUT ALSO NOT worth accepting as ‘friend’ at face value ...New lines are being drawn. We have time to get them right.
How much of a "foe" are the Russians, really?
See Neocon Phenomenon.