Biden has been a better foreign policy president than GWB, Obama, and Trump, by a wide margin.
Too bad plenty here seem to be drinking the right wing kool-aid that he is just some senile bumbler.
I have some critiques of his Ukraine policy, and think he may be too cautious about some things, but results wise, the Russian armed forces have been decimated, Ukraine two years later is still fighting with high morale and hardly any territorial loss since the first months of the war, US troops are not dying and no nukes have gone off. Things could certainly have been much worse in Ukraine. Could they have been better? Probably not in any meaningful way.
Allowing western weapons to be used in Russia itself would probably be appropriate policy but it's not going to fundamentally change the war. Biden doesn't have ability to suddenly get Ukraine F16s and the pilots to fly them and even if that was prioritized from day 1 of the war that would have meant leaving more important military aid out from prior aid packages. And if Ukraine did have some F16s, it doesn't change the calculus of Russia launching glide bombs from within their own territory covered by their own air defense systems that can keep Ukrainian jets too far back to engage the Russian jets.
What could Biden do that would significantly alter the course of the war? Directly involve the US military. I'm OK with that but I don't think most Americans are.
Too bad plenty here seem to be drinking the right wing kool-aid that he is just some senile bumbler.
I have some critiques of his Ukraine policy, and think he may be too cautious about some things, but results wise, the Russian armed forces have been decimated, Ukraine two years later is still fighting with high morale and hardly any territorial loss since the first months of the war, US troops are not dying and no nukes have gone off. Things could certainly have been much worse in Ukraine. Could they have been better? Probably not in any meaningful way.
Allowing western weapons to be used in Russia itself would probably be appropriate policy but it's not going to fundamentally change the war. Biden doesn't have ability to suddenly get Ukraine F16s and the pilots to fly them and even if that was prioritized from day 1 of the war that would have meant leaving more important military aid out from prior aid packages. And if Ukraine did have some F16s, it doesn't change the calculus of Russia launching glide bombs from within their own territory covered by their own air defense systems that can keep Ukrainian jets too far back to engage the Russian jets.
What could Biden do that would significantly alter the course of the war? Directly involve the US military. I'm OK with that but I don't think most Americans are.