I will give credit where credit is due and if this crisis passes and the following things are satisfied then I will concede that the Biden team did okay:
1. Russia has not invaded Ukraine.
2. Russian troops are not allowed to be stationed in Ukraine.
3. Donbass is denied to the Russian thieves.
4. Sanctions remain in place over the Russian occupation of Crimea and parts of Donbass.
5. Russia’s demands that NATO abandon Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, and Albania are soundly rejected.
6. Russia’s demands they they get veto power over NATO expansion (particularly Finland and Sweden) are soundly rejected if not mocked and ridiculed.
Excellent
As often is the case, we won’t know all the facts until a few years pass. I think if there was a ‘break’ in the case, it had more to do with the ‘talks’ between. Russia and the Ukraine, and Russia with other European leaders and not so much the so called ‘tough stand’ that Biden took. Putin knows he was just bluffing.