Florida Congressman and incoming National Security Adviser Michael Waltz discusses the escalation in the Ukraine-Russia war, the efforts to end the Israel-Hamas war and foreign policy under a second Trump administration.

Suppose you support Ukraine but not the way the war has been prosecuted – but also want Russian President Vladimir Putin to be soundly and unmistakably defeated. How do you square this problem?

Maybe look back 50 years ago to the fall of South Vietnam for some context and guidance.

Besides the squandered opportunities at the early stages of both fights, Ukraine today brings to mind the latter phase of the Vietnam War.

A CIA employee helps Vietnamese evacuees onto an Air America helicopter from the top of 22 Gia Long Street, a half mile from the U.S. Embassy, during the U.S. evacuation of Saigon in April 1975.

The Americans were tired of it.

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It wasn't being conducted in a way that seemed sensible or likely to bring victory (and hadn't been for some time).

And the United States itself was wracked with social and economic problems back in the early ’70s.

Thus, the U.S., and Congress in particular – to include Sen. Joe Biden ("We are under no obligation to help those people") – let South Vietnam go under.

It turned out that with just a reasonable level of support, the South Vietnamese could have hung on........

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