Russia's invasion of Ukraine makes neocons -- not national conservatives -- look bad

There is a growing sense in some quarters that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been a setback for national conservatism. Many on the right instinctively see the Kremlin's war differently than the nascent populists do, and some of the latter have genuinely allowed reasonable criticisms of the West's missteps, especially on NATO expansion, to bleed into credulity about Russia's claims. But it's not entirely clear that anything going on in Ukraine particularly discredits the new nationalists' i...