[GK3]

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.

I am not a "Rightwing Cool Aide Drinker" by any stretch of the imagination. Once we made the decision to assist Ukraine, someone should have made a list of what Ukraine needed long term and short term to survive. Artillery, Rockets, Tanks, APC's, HIMARS, etc. etc.  At that point once the need was identified, an immediate effort should have begun to provide those materials.  Instead, it has been a situation where a decision to do something has only been done after months of hand wringing.
My biases are not political,  but the result of personal experiece long ago as an member of the US Military in SE Asia. 
When politics takes presidence over what is needed by the military to achieve an objective people often die for no good reason.
If we want to stop Putin, we need to make that decison one way or another and either get out, or get in, all the way.  Western Europe seems to be waking up to the fact they can't really count on us going forward. 
We have to decide who we are and what we stand for and then act, one way or the other.  
The world we live in today, is not the world of our fathers, or maybe for some your grandfathers.  It is no longer just Russia versus Europe.  China certainly has a vote in today's world and we can no longer be the sole major defender of freedom and some form of democracy.  We can't be the sole power that is willing to keep Taiwan indepedent, or the sole power that keeps Ukraine a free country. It is no longer 1941.

[GK3]

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.

I am not a "Rightwing Cool Aide Drinker" by any stretch of the imagination. Once we made the decision to assist Ukraine, someone should have made a list of what Ukraine needed long term and short term to survive. Artillery, Rockets, Tanks, APC's, HIMARS, etc. etc.  At that point once the need was identified, an immediate effort should have begun to provide those materials.  Instead, it has been a situation where a decision to do something has only been done after months of hand wringing.
My biases are not political,  but the result of personal experiece long ago as an member of the US Military in SE Asia. 
When politics takes presidence over what is needed by the military to achieve an objective people often die for no good reason.
If we want to stop Putin, we need to make that decison one way or another and either get out, or get in, all the way.  Western Europe seems to be waking up to the fact they can't really count on us going forward. 
We have to decide who we are and what we stand for and then act, one way or the other.  
The world we live in today, is not the world of our fathers, or maybe for some your grandfathers.  It is no longer just Russia versus Europe.  China certainly has a vote in today's world and we can no longer be the sole major defender of freedom and some form of democracy.  We can't be the sole power that is willing to keep Taiwan indepedent, or the sole power that keeps Ukraine a free country. It is no longer 1941.