Somehow, I doubt our Polish and other NATO treaty partners of the former Warsaw Pact will be happy with this. Also very much doubt they heard about it before Joe let it drool from his lips. This administration is well on the way to getting a lot of people killed.
I doubt Biden had much at all to do with this policy proposal. It smells of Ivy Leaguers from Foggy Bottom... It’s designed to make it look like the administration was ‘willing to go halfway.’ They’ll need that cover when the excrement hits the fan.
The Ukraine situation is one of the greatest geopolitical confrontations in recent memory. This is not really about ideology or Ukraine’s sovereignty; its more about regional control of resources and the reclamation of Russian influence.
How the U.S. reacts is also a matter closely related to Chinese expansionary objectives in Asia. Thus America is playing two very consequential games at once.
Both Russia and China recognize this moment of particularly weak leadership in the U.S. There is no way they will let this once in a lifetime opportunity slip by without taking full advantage of it.
We will be living in ‘interesting times’ this year. The U.S. will be challenged on a global scale.