Fast forward to 18 minutes<\/p>\n
<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/biden-wait-another-month-or-so-to-see-if-sanctions-are-working\/\">Biden: Wait Another Month or So to See if Sanctions Are Working<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In yet another\u2026\u00a0<em>uneven<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aJxZQmZTLZI\">press conference appearance<\/a>, President Biden\u2019s worst line was, \u201cthey are profound sanctions. Let\u2019s have a conversation in another month or so to see if they\u2019re working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s not clear that President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian government, and the Ukrainian armed forces have another month. Russian and Ukrainian forces are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristopherJM\/status\/1496931747023495176\">fighting over control of Antonov Airfield<\/a>, just 15 minutes from Kyiv. The Ukrainians are trying to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAPonomarenko\/status\/1496931634696028160\">hold off the Russians at Hostomel airport outside Kyiv<\/a>. The Russian forces are attempting to secure Kyiv as quickly as possible \u2013 and if the Russians get control of those airfields, they can fly in a lot more reinforcements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdrianBonenber1\/status\/1496913418170900485\">This assessment from a former U.S. Army infantry officer<\/a>\u00a0suggests the Ukrainians could hold out in the cities for a long while. But it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess as to how the battles, large and small, play out from here. It is quite possible that time is indeed on the Ukrainians\u2019 side; there\u2019s at least one report indicating that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1571471\/Russia-surrender-tank-Ukraine-Ambassador-US-Vladimir-putin-latest-vn\">a group of Russian forces surrendered<\/a>\u00a0when they realized the Ukrainians would fight back. Maybe Putin and the Russian military leadership severely underestimated the Ukrainian will to resist. But Russia can still bring a hell of a lot of ordinance down on any target. No one knows what the situation will look like tomorrow, much less a week or a month from now.<\/p>\n<p>Economic sanctions don\u2019t work particularly quickly; it takes time for Russians, from the oligarchs to the average citizen to feel the squeeze. Sanctions might have put real pressure on Putin\u2019s allies \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/the-morning-jolt\/the-nightmare-of-war-in-europe-returns\/\">if they had been put in place a month ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden said he wants to have a conversation in another month or so to see if sanctions are working. A month from now, there may not be much of a Ukrainian government left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast forward to 18 minutes \ufeff Biden: Wait Another Month or So to See if Sanctions Are Working. In yet another\u2026\u00a0uneven\u00a0press conference appearance, President Biden\u2019s worst line was, \u201cthey are profound sanctions. Let\u2019s have a conversation in another month or so to see if they\u2019re working.\u201d It\u2019s not clear that President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian … <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=77947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947","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=77947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77950,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947\/revisions\/77950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}