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The line Biden won’t cross on Ukraine!

Apr 18, 2021
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As Russian leader Vladimir Putin moves troops into Ukrainian territory and threatens a wider invasion of the country, President Joe Biden is responding with words of condemnation, economic sanctions and efforts to rally U.S. allies to stand up to Moscow.

But one option Biden remains unwilling to use is sending American troops to fight Russian forces in Ukraine.

“Strong presidents never take options off the table, and we cannot be surprised if Putin now doubts whether we really care what he does to Ukraine,” GOP Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi wrote in the National Review last week.

Biden is so dead set on avoiding the possibility of a U.S.-Russian military encounter that he pulled out of Ukraine scores of U.S. troops who had been training that country’s fighters. He also recently warned that he won’t send U.S. troops to evacuate Americans stuck in Ukraine, citing the risk of a clash.

“That’s a world war when Americans and Russia start shooting at one another,” Biden explained in an interview that aired earlier this month with NBC News’ Lester Holt. “We’re in a very different world than we’ve ever been.”

But Biden’s position also raises the question: Would Putin have made different calculations in Ukraine this week if Biden had raised the possibility he would deploy American troops? Or should Biden have stayed mum about what he’d do — adopting a strategically ambiguous position that could have deterred Putin?

Critics of Biden’s stance say it’s impossible to assess exactly what alternative history might have transpired had Biden kept alive the military option. Putin has, after all, had a presence inside Ukraine since 2014, when he first invaded, and he appears intent on taking more of the country.

But the Russian leader’s takeaway from Biden’s unwillingness to deploy troops is that he can get away with a lot, some critics argue, and China is learning the same as it weighs how to deal with Taiwan.

“The message we’re sending Russia by rushing U.S. troops out of [Ukraine and] closing the embassy is that we’re afraid of getting into a conflict with any Russians,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, who criticized Biden’s stance in a searing op-ed earlier this month.


Add to Biden’s reticence on Ukraine his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and China’s communist leaders will believe “that we’re not willing to fight for anything,” Schake said in an interview.

Whether Trump, Biden or someone else is in charge in Washington in 2025, one person with a long-term view is Putin, who plans to stay in power for many more years.

 
Biden didn't take anything off the table. He just said we're not sending troops to ukraine. Doesn't mean it's off the table moving forward. We're like on day 2 of the is war. Don't be such a spaz.

Clearly someone doesn't understand our NATO membership.
 
Ummm, the Green New Deal isn't law. It's basically a proposal for what could be law but it's never been voted on.

How does the "mindset" help putin again?
Energy independence. Biden gave Putin all the leverage. The sanctions are meaningless because the world needs Russia’s fossil fuels.
 
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Specifically, how did Biden give Putin all the leverage as it relates to energy independence?
Read the tweet. He has taken steps to eliminate the US’s energy independence. Biden wants to threaten sanctions when he made the sanctions meaningless

 
Read the tweet. He has taken steps to eliminate the US’s energy independence.

I'm asking you. What steps has Biden taken to eliminate the U.S.'s energy independence. Can you articulate the actual steps he's taken without quoting a faux news editorial?
 
Read the tweet. He has taken steps to eliminate the US’s energy independence. Biden wants to threaten sanctions when he made the sanctions meaningless

An opinion piece titled "Biden's war on American energy...". Welp that proves it all.

Imagine putting that in the thread thinking this will get 'em!

You must be a dumb-dumb
 
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Is that video at all recent? It must be edited; highly edited ... or just a throwaway line in an interview that relates to something else? I have tons of respect for Bannon, but that video seems off in some manner.

I do not recall how active the Clintons were in redrawing the lines of the old USSR, but I do know that after they were out of office, James Carville went over there and managed an election or two. He became disillusioned quickly and quit doing that stuff. Carville must have seen at least the germ of an idea for the free nation that is finally coming to fruition with the election of Zelensky. Zelinsky appears to truly believe in the idea of Ukraine being something beyond "just an area."
 
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