TLDR: Outside of the West, there is no apetite for American demands to isolate Russia.
TLDR on views of the newspaper’s CEO:
Born Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater Moscow State University
Simes authored a book After the Collapse: Russia Seeks its Place as a Great Power (published by Simon and Schuster).[4]
In February 2015, Dimitri Simes met with Russian president Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials in Moscow.[5] As publisher of The National Interest, Simes was also involved in arranging Trump’s April 27, 2016, speech at the Mayflower Hotel
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He was selected by Richard Nixon and is known to be a super hawk. You left that part out.
Ok, here you go
Simes was selected to lead the Center in 1994 by former President Richard Nixon, to whom he served as an informal foreign policy advisor and with whom he traveled regularly to Russia and other former Soviet states as well as Western and Central Europe.
His wiki page doesn’t have much info on hawks tho