Thread by @GicAriana

I keep thinking about how the Biden admin was considering Matthew Rojansky as the Russia Director of the National Security Council. I wonder if someone didn’t reach out to Rand for Charap’s appeasement piece to see what reception it would receive if adopted as US policy.

The public response to the prospect of the Wilson Center’s Rojansky being the NSC Russia director was a resounding “hell no”. Did they reach out for an appeasement pusher to use it as a test balloon? See how big a commotion the policy would cause? Acceptance from enough people?

I also can’t help but continue to feel that no matter the rhetoric from the Biden admin, he is cut from the same cloth as Obama who was a disaster on foreign policy. The man of the “reset” admin may not be all that different on Russia. Decisions to date have largely sucked.

It appears this line of thinking about the Politico appeasement piece being a test balloon by the Biden admin is widely shared. This makes me much more worried about the kind/degree of support the US will lend Ukraine should Moscow indeed escalate its war.
cepa.org/ukraine-no-nee…

A number of us worried that the reset proposal we were responding to was in fact meant for the likely incoming Biden administration. We privately speculated that this was a test balloon & sign of another “reset” & appeasement admin in the US. I fear our concerns weren’t wrong.

https://twitter.com/GicAriana/status/1309526463960494080