Former President Ronald Reagan’s “make America great again” economic policies at home and his “peace through strength” approach to foreign issues brought Moscow to its knees and won the Cold War. Within months of his vice president succeeding him in the Oval Office, the Berlin Wall fell. In less than three years, the Soviet Union was erased from the maps.

In the late '90s, conversations with Russian students in America revealed a troubling sentiment. Rather than appreciating the freedoms gained after the collapse of socialism, some of these smart and ambitious individuals were holding a grudge against the West. Our intelligence agencies might have benefited from exploring those resentments.

Perhaps thinking that his predecessors had made Russia irrelevant forever, Clinton lived the good

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