One other point on Biden’s comment: there are things we cannot give the Ukrainians for fear of escalation. There’s not going to be a no-fly zone, for example. NATO is not going to intervene militarily. And there are weapons systems we won’t give them. Fair enough. Russia is a
major nuclear power. Particularly given the limitations on what we can do, it is critically important that we look the situation in the face and tell the truth. Biden has been very good about this, for the most part, despite being a remarkably inarticulate fellow.
But this statement is an important breakthrough, one he owed the Ukrainians given the functional limits of the support we can provide.
It is good when an American president, speaking on behalf of the entire free world, says what every Ukrainian knows: that there can be no
It is good when an American president, speaking on behalf of the entire free world, says what every Ukrainian knows: that there can be no
peace, not really anyway, with this man in power.
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