Well, you could give him credit for trying his hardest to act like the former Prime Minister of England, Neville Chamberlain.<\/p>\n
Mr. President, This Does Not Constitute \u2018Standing Up to Putin\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n If\u00a0reports are accurate that the Biden administration<\/a>\u00a0\u201cwill press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy to eastern Ukrainian lands now controlled by Russia-backed separatists who rose up against Kyiv in 2014\u201d and declare that Ukraine is not going to join NATO for the next decade, in order to avoid a war with Russia, it will be another terrific example of how I should never give the Biden administration any credit for anything.<\/strong><\/p>\n In\u00a0yesterday\u2019s Morning Jolt<\/a>, I wrote, \u201clet us pause and credit the administration for spending a good portion of yesterday attempting to send a clear message to Vladimir Putin and galvanize U.S. allies in order to deter further Russian aggression against Ukraine.\u201d After a long stretch of the Biden administration seeming to ignore Russia, Biden and his national-security adviser Jake Sullivan publicly said they had communicated to Putin, \u201cthings we did not do in 2014 [when Russia invaded Crimea] we are prepared to do now.\u201d<\/p>\n Apparently\u2026 nevermind. If the recent report from the AP is accurate, Biden is willing to reward Putin with Ukrainian territory in order to avoid a conflict, ignoring the fact that he\u2019s just set up an incentive system for further aggression.<\/p>\n In yesterday\u2019s Morning Jolt, I also wrote, \u201cfor most of Biden\u2019s presidency so far, he and his top officials have talked a good game about standing up to Vladimir Putin and then inched away from any actual conflict.\u201d It looks like old habits die hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, you could give him credit for trying his hardest to act like the former Prime Minister of England, Neville Chamberlain. Mr. President, This Does Not Constitute \u2018Standing Up to Putin\u2019 If\u00a0reports are accurate that the Biden administration\u00a0\u201cwill press Ukraine to formally cede a measure of autonomy to eastern Ukrainian lands now controlled by Russia-backed … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-enemies-foreign-domestic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75243,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75219\/revisions\/75243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}