Russian President Vladimir Putin has nothing to worry from President Joe Biden's weak response.
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Deliberately or not, President Joe Biden retains giving Russian thugocrat Vladimir Putin motive to suppose he can get away with slicing off a bit of Ukraine.
He did it once more this week, below the guise of emphasizing NATO’s unity in opposition to Putin’s atrocity-packed invasion. The alliance, the prez declared, has been “sending an unmistakable message to Putin: He won't ever reach dominating and occupying all of Ukraine.”
All of Ukraine, Biden specified — clearly implying that the allies will settle for Russia conqueringhalf of the nation.
Putin will certainly see that as motive to suppose he can certainly seize the energy-rich Donbas area, plus the realm round already-leveled Mariupol — which is precisely what bloody Vlad this week implicitly set as his present purpose, now that the Ukrainians have defeated his bid to seize the entire nation.
This follows Biden’s pre-war “warning” to Putin the place Joe recommended the alliance would possibly effectively do nothing if Russia solely took a bit (effectively, one other piece, because it grabbed Crimea again when Biden was vice chairman) of the nation.
Sure, there are limits to what the West will do to counter Putin. But it surely positive could be good if the US president would cease hinting that the tyrant can get away with conquering Ukraine one chunk at a time.
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