Historic analogies are sometimes lazy, and I cringe after I hear analysts liken the battle in Ukraine and the West’s unsure response to World Battle II and Munich. But as I watch the hesitant Western army effort—with the U.S., Britain, Poland and the Baltic states within the lead, Germany and France lagging, and the remainder of Europe someplace in between—I hear a minimum of a rhyme.

The theme that involves thoughts is “disbelief”—a widespread incredulity concerning the seriousness of the menace we face, which ends up in unsteady management. It’s the product of a long time of post-Chilly Battle globalist dogma that weakened the West’s means to acknowledge adversity and battle for what it holds pricey.