Conservatives Want More of Biden’s Ukraine Policy

As I write on Tuesday evening, Congress is taking an hour to debate a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, $7 billion more than President Biden requested. The bill was introduced just a few hours ago. A few especially disliked elected officials — Chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor Greene — have taken the few minutes they have to object to the absurdity of Congress being used in this way, as barely more than a rubber stamp for a very serious aid package to Ukraine.

It is a fitting spectacle, signaling something like brain death of American foreign policy. The Biden administration’s Ukraine policy is plainly and dangerously divorced from the sentiments of the American people. There is zero diplomatic effort led by the U.S. to end the war, only to make the war more favorable for the Ukrainians and less favorable to the Russians, but without America committing itself to any particular outcome. All of this is accompanied by loose and frankly unrealistic tal k about Vladimir Putin’s regime falling in Russia, whether by President Biden in his speech in Poland, or by administration officials .

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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As I write on Tuesday evening, Congress is taking an hour to debate a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine, $7 billion more than President Biden requested. The bill was introduced just a few hours ago. A few especially disliked elected officials — Chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor Greene — have taken the few minutes they have to object to the absurdity of Congress being used in this way, as barely more than a rubber stamp for a very serious aid package to Ukraine.

It is a fitting spectacle, signaling something like brain death of American foreign policy. The Biden administration’s Ukraine policy is plainly and dangerously divorced from the sentiments of the American people. There is zero diplomatic effort led by the U.S. to end the war, only to make the war more favorable for the Ukrainians and less favorable to the Russians, but without America committing itself to any particular outcome. All of this is accompanied by loose and frankly unrealistic tal k about Vladimir Putin’s regime falling in Russia, whether by President Biden in his speech in Poland, or by administration officials .