Russia-Ukraine War: Biden’s Appeasement Risks Catastrophe

As the Ukrainian military runs low on ammunition, the situation in the country is threatening to become catastrophic. Russian missiles targeting Ukrainian urban infrastructure are starting to get through, and Ukrainian front-line forces have inadequate shells to respond to Russian artillery barrages. According to the Institute for Study of War, the country is becoming increasingly unstable. While Ukraine could clearly win if it were supplied with airpower, it could also collapse quickly if the exhaustion of its anti-tank weaponry allowed Russia to resume mobile warfare.

President Biden is blaming this impending disaster on Republicans, some of whom are stalling his request for more Ukraine arms funding. There is plenty of truth in this; Ukraine-skeptical Republicans are gravely mistaken. Yet the president’s job is not to complain, but to defeat America’s enemies. And Biden still has plenty of options for doing so.

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Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is an aerospace engineer and the author of twelve books, most recently The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.

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As the Ukrainian military runs low on ammunition, the situation in the country is threatening to become catastrophic. Russian missiles targeting Ukrainian urban infrastructure are starting to get through, and Ukrainian front-line forces have inadequate shells to respond to Russian artillery barrages. According to the Institute for Study of War, the country is becoming increasingly unstable. While Ukraine could clearly win if it were supplied with airpower, it could also collapse quickly if the exhaustion of its anti-tank weaponry allowed Russia to resume mobile warfare.

President Biden is blaming this impending disaster on Republicans, some of whom are stalling his request for more Ukraine arms funding. There is plenty of truth in this; Ukraine-skeptical Republicans are gravely mistaken. Yet the president’s job is not to complain, but to defeat America’s enemies. And Biden still has plenty of options for doing so.