'We now have enough evidence of how the Biden administration has comported itself to offer a preliminary assessment of its performance,' Senior Contributor Loren Thompson says in his latest article.
Given these circumstances, President Biden has made the intelligent decision to avoid overblown rhetoric and acknowledge that the West will not fight to defend Ukraine. The danger is too great, and the likelihood of popular support in Western nations for military action is too remote. The president has instead summoned all the other tools at his disposal to make Russia pay dearly if it launches an invasion.
Biden has been careful not to specify all the military steps the alliance might take if Russia invades, although U.S. sale of fighters and tanks to countries like Poland now looks to be a foregone conclusion. The movement of U.S. troops from America to Europe and within Europe sends a clear signal to Putin that he is hastening precisely the outcome he wishes to avoid: a strengthening of alliance forces on his borders.
Some, including Ukrainian President Zelensky, have accused Washington of being too alarmist in its assessment of what the intelligence indicates. But there is little doubt that Biden & Co. are accurately reflecting the findings of intelligence analysts, and that the U.S. is tracking every Russian move.In an effort to justify an invasion of Ukraine, Russian sources have sought to depict Ukraine as an aggressive and illegitimate state.
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