The Post Says: Biden is fiddling around while Ukraine burns

President Joe Biden instructed reporters Monday that the US was "not going to ship to Ukraine rocket methods that may strike into Russia."
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As regular, the Biden administration dithers whereas the world burns.

Is it any shock that officers who didn’t see inflation coming, who couldn’t deal with a baby-formula scarcity and stored pushing laws though members of their very own social gathering stated no, can’t correctly arm Ukraine, regardless of a bipartisan push to take action?

“For weeks, [Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky] and different prime Ukrainian officers have been asking the US to offer a number of launch rocket methods, or MLRS, which might give Kyiv the flexibility to strike targets from a lot farther away and a greater likelihood of resisting the assault within the east,” stories The Washington Put up.

However some contained in the White Home had been nervous the MLRS may very well be used to hit targets inside Russia, escalating the response. However “the White Home is now snug managing that danger by withholding the longest vary ammunition for the system, a senior US official instructed The Put up.”

That took WEEKS?!

It’s idiotic that the administration is having assembly after assembly about limiting the vary of missiles as Ukrainian troopers struggle for his or her lives. It’s much more baffling contemplating that Russian President Vladimir Putin reveals none such issues about “escalation.” Does wiping out a hospital containing pregnant girls not depend as escalation? How about leveling Mariupol to the bottom? Making an attempt to assassinate Zelensky?

The top of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, stated Ukrainian forces wanted the weaponry “yesterday.” Slogging by way of crimson tape and the Biden administration’s personal waffling not solely makes issues worse for Ukraine, it'll price everybody extra down the street.

Putin reveals no compunction in regards to the struggling he’s inflicting. The least President Biden can do for Ukraine is provide them with the weapons they want — now.