This is not fair to Biden. He is not channeling Chamberlain. Chamberlain did not send a flood of weapons to Czechoslovakia. The U.S. and NATO are doing a tremendous amount to help Ukraine. We are providing huge numbers of effective weapons. Ukraine would have been overrun a week ago without them. What we will not do is commit direct acts…
This is not fair to Biden. He is not channeling Chamberlain. Chamberlain did not send a flood of weapons to Czechoslovakia. The U.S. and NATO are doing a tremendous amount to help Ukraine. We are providing huge numbers of effective weapons. Ukraine would have been overrun a week ago without them. What we will not do is commit direct acts of war by having our soldiers kill Russian soldiers. The distinction between providing weapons and having your own soldiers use these weapons may be artificial. It may even be silly. But this is how international laws and the so-called laws of war work. Putin has nuclear weapons. If he is backed into a corner and attacked by NATO forces, he may use them. This is not a risk we should take to save Ukraine. The people of Ukraine may have to suffer from a Russian occupation for years, until Putin dies or is removed from office. That is tragic, but not a tragedy that we should risk nuclear annihilation to prevent. Saying we should risk that is like saying we should invade North Korea because it is the most brutal regime on earth and it subjects its own people to unspeakable cruelty. Yes, it does, but that is not a problem we can fix without risking nuclear attacks on S. Korea, Japan and the U.S. There are limits to U.S. military power.
This is not fair to Biden. He is not channeling Chamberlain. Chamberlain did not send a flood of weapons to Czechoslovakia. The U.S. and NATO are doing a tremendous amount to help Ukraine. We are providing huge numbers of effective weapons. Ukraine would have been overrun a week ago without them. What we will not do is commit direct acts of war by having our soldiers kill Russian soldiers. The distinction between providing weapons and having your own soldiers use these weapons may be artificial. It may even be silly. But this is how international laws and the so-called laws of war work. Putin has nuclear weapons. If he is backed into a corner and attacked by NATO forces, he may use them. This is not a risk we should take to save Ukraine. The people of Ukraine may have to suffer from a Russian occupation for years, until Putin dies or is removed from office. That is tragic, but not a tragedy that we should risk nuclear annihilation to prevent. Saying we should risk that is like saying we should invade North Korea because it is the most brutal regime on earth and it subjects its own people to unspeakable cruelty. Yes, it does, but that is not a problem we can fix without risking nuclear attacks on S. Korea, Japan and the U.S. There are limits to U.S. military power.