Anne Applebaum knows not what she asks for.
Like Seinfeld and car reservations, Democrats are great about starting wars.
They just have trouble ending them.
Then they lose interest, go wobbly and look for Republicans to blame.
Yoo-hoo, Anne, this is not the same world as 60 years ago. Russia is a nuclear power. The chances of there being grand tank battles on the plains between two or more major powers is nil. We will continue to see proxy wars between smaller countries and groups that are backed by the major powers, but nobody is going to risk nuclear war over these conflicts. That would be quite insane. (paging the nutball in N. Korea)