It's not that this story isn't interesting, on the contrary, but at the same time it's really the culmination of the process by which the press has given up on being a check on the national security apparatus and instead has turned into a legitimizing instrument for it.
They *literally* turned into a mouthpiece for the national security apparatus with that piece. It's really extraordinary when you think about it, but it's been totally normalized so we don't even think about it anymore.
There is so much self-serving bullshit in this piece, e. g. ritual invocations of the "rules-based international order", but since it's just members of the national security apparatus speaking there is no critical pushback and it functions as a narrative-boosting exercise.
I'm not just talking about the rhetoric and how they ideologically frame the issue, but also the normative issues that are raised by how the interagency process on national security works, which are never discussed because the piece just presents the heroic view of that process.
Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a disaster not just because it will kill hundreds of thousands and usher in a new cold war, but also because it will make any pushback against what Glennon called the "Trumanite network" virtually impossible. amazon.com
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