Ukraine War: Republican Party Is AWOL

President Joe Biden’s Ukraine policy has been a disaster.

Months in advance, the United States knew with certainty that Putin was planning an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Biden did not use that intelligence to arm Ukraine (as this writer and others advised at the time), an action that might well have deterred the invasion and certainly would have prevented it from getting as far as it has. On the contrary, Biden refused to send Ukraine more than nominal aid. He further undermined deterrence by announcing publicly and repeatedly that the U.S. would not intervene with our own forces “under any scenario.”

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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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President Joe Biden’s Ukraine policy has been a disaster.

Months in advance, the United States knew with certainty that Putin was planning an all-out invasion of Ukraine. Biden did not use that intelligence to arm Ukraine (as this writer and others advised at the time), an action that might well have deterred the invasion and certainly would have prevented it from getting as far as it has. On the contrary, Biden refused to send Ukraine more than nominal aid. He further undermined deterrence by announcing publicly and repeatedly that the U.S. would not intervene with our own forces “under any scenario.”