Biden has stood inept before Putin since becoming president.
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Right: President Joe Biden speaks during his visit to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., December 2, 2021. Left: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting via a video conference call in Moscow, Russia, December 5, 2021.
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No American leader with all his faculties would squeeze Ukraine into letting Russia take more of its territory unconventionally in exchange for Moscow promising not to conquer it by conventional invasion.
Joe Biden isn’t that kind of leader. If Ukraine simply makes more territorial concessions to Russia’s armed proxies in the besieged country’s troubled Donbas region, and Vladimir Putin makes the easy promise not to invade with his own army in return, Biden would consider it a fair deal.
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John Rossomando is a national-security analyst.
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No American leader with all his faculties would squeeze Ukraine into letting Russia take more of its territory unconventionally in exchange for Moscow promising not to conquer it by conventional invasion.
Joe Biden isn’t that kind of leader. If Ukraine simply makes more territorial concessions to Russia’s armed proxies in the besieged country’s troubled Donbas region, and Vladimir Putin makes the easy promise not to invade with his own army in return, Biden would consider it a fair deal.
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John Rossomando is a national-security analyst.
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