Reflexive Hostility Is Not 'More Principled' Than Engagement

We should reject the idea that diplomatic engagement is somehow less scrupulous than belligerence and threats.

The Financial Times ran a weird article on Biden’s decision to schedule a summit with Putin after the Belarusian diversion of the Ryanair jet and their abduction of Roman Protasevich. The article casts the decision to meet as a compromise of Biden’s commitment to democracy and human rights, but this doesn’t really make sense since the U.S. has already c…