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Another Day, Another Failure By Russia to Invade Ukraine
Yet another win for Joe Biden.
“I’m not here to start a war,” U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken very memorably told the press last week; “I’m here to prevent one.”
Blinken’s statement perhaps best articulates the foreign policy stance of the Biden Administration as it pertains to war: “Read my lips: No new wars.”
This strict “no new wars” policy may eventually see Biden known as the Anti-War President, but until those history books are written, the President must do all he can to secure his legacy in the latest conflict between Russia and the Ukraine.
Weeks ago, when the Biden Administration first started warning of an imminent, full-scale Russian invasion into the Ukraine, the claim was met with skepticism from some quarters. Pointing to the unmistakable photographic evidence of 150,000 Russian troops poised near the border, Biden has never wavered.
Putin, the U.S. President, military authorities and intelligence agencies keep insisting, is planning something big in the near future for Ukraine. And it’s nothing good.
Russia claims this has all been some terrible misunderstanding. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration has accused U.S. authorities of “warmongering” and of wildly over-estimating the threat…