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About the war in Ukraine: Is the United States a belligerent?
The Russians think so. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says that the United States “definitely has declared economic war against Russia”.
We should assume that in this if nothing else the Kremlin is telling the truth, and we should prepare ourselves for what the response might be.
Though the bungling Biden administration has not exactly exercised inspiring leadership in this, the actions of the country with the world’s largest economy and most powerful military inevitably stand out.
In practical terms, the reluctant and belated U.S. prohibition of Russian oil imports probably will not have much of an economic effect.
Bungling Biden's bumbling and blithering over the matter of sending Polish MiG-29 fighter jets from Poland (a NATO ally) to Ukraine (not a NATO ally) is the result of both nations’ fears that the action would drag them directly into WWIII.
Poland wanted to send the jets to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and someone in Washington shied away from the prospect of having fighter jets fly out of a U.S. base in a NATO country into the war zone in Ukraine.
In truth, the United States is a belligerent if Vladimir Putin says the United States is a belligerent.
The MiG fiasco underlined the bungling Biden regime’s predictable fecklessness and disorganization — America needed a Keystone pipeline but we got the Keystone Cops.
If there is any serious thinking going on in the White Louse about what Putin’s response to our “declaration of economic war” is likely to be, there isn’t any obvious evidence of it. The pusillanimous posture of the vacillating bungling Biden bureaucracy by all appearances is one of wishful thinking.
If Putin is looking for a pretext, he will have no trouble finding one.
The United States is keenly interested in keeping the fighting in Ukraine. But the fighting will stay in Ukraine for only as long as Putin believes it is in his interest to keep it there. That may not be for much longer.
Discuss.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/are-we-at-war/#slide-1