Internal sources of the application of Kamala Harris They stressed this Friday that the Democratic candidate would be firmer than Joe Biden in support of Ukraine. The government would do better Volodymyr Zelensky.
Despite persistent rumours last week, the meeting between the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmerand the US president ended on a bittersweet note: Biden continues to refuse to allow Ukraine to use its medium and long-range ATACMS missiles over Russian territory… although he “authorizes” the United Kingdom and France to follow their own policy with the Storm Shadows and Scalps.
Strictly speaking, this authorization is not necessary. France and the United Kingdom have long expressed their willingness to see Ukraine use such weapons in addition to the Kursk offensive, provided that it is limited to military objectives. Last Wednesday, Zelensky handed over to the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkena list of specific enclaves that Ukraine intends to bomb: air bases, military complexes and infrastructure linked to the supply chain to the front. What Russia has been bombing in Ukraine for the past two and a half years.
It is understood that this same list will be the authorized one. more star And Macronor a very similar one. The United States does not close the door to a possible later authorization, but this only delays a decision that will sooner or later be necessary. In this way, instead of angering Putin once and standing firm in the face of his threats, What is being done is to prolong the diplomatic conflict unnecessarily.When, in a month, Biden finally says yes, the threats and grievances will return.
Eight British diplomats expelled
And the Russian president, aware of what could happen to him in terms of public opinion if Ukraine started bombing Moscow or St. Petersburg, and not just the Belgorod refineries or the Crimean bridges, has been tougher than ever in recent hours. In statements on state television, Putin said that Ukraine was incapable of attacking Russian soil alone and that if such an attack took place, it would have to be provoked by the participation of NATO countries.
In such a case, Putin continued, Russia would consider the conflict to have taken on a different nature and would take such measures as tantamount to a declaration of war by the Atlantic Alliance. These remarks were accompanied by the expulsion of eight British diplomats, accused of espionage. As you can see, The Kremlin has put everything on the table to condition the American decision… and unfortunately he achieved his goal.
Two opposing sensibilities have been clashing for some time in the White House when it comes to confronting the war in Ukraine. The wing led by Jake SullivanNational Defense Advisor, chooses to act with the utmost caution: he believes in the Russian threat and insists that, as early as the fall of 2022, Moscow was considering using tactical nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil. The wing led by Antony Blinken, as demonstrated by his recent visit to kyiv and Warsaw, calls for more audacity and insists that Putin is bluffing. Biden, for now, prefers caution.
Even the senator Mitch McConnellHouse Republican Minority Leader, has privately insisted on the need to arm Ukraine and abandon the policy of installment delivery. McConnell is an avowed enemy of Donald Trump and represents the conservative Republican sensibility closest to a Reagan or to a Bush and further from the pro-Russian activist populism of the presidential candidate.
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Sentenced to medium terms
In any case, the fact is that Biden’s fear of crossing red lines remains the basis of his foreign policy. After staying halfway in Afghanistan, he remains halfway in the war in Gaza, unable to bring Israel and Hamas to reach once and for all the agreement that his administration has been promising for months… and the same thing is happening in Ukraine. On the one hand, this irritates Russia with the gradual concession of HIMARS, Patriots, ATACMS, F16s, etc. and On the other, he is trying to stay on good terms with the Kremlin by imposing absurd restrictions that his own allies reject..
It seems that Biden is in the middle of two wars that he does not want to be in and, since he does not want to be in them, he prefers to close his eyes and pretend that they do not exist. He is with Israel, but against NetanyahuHe passionately condemns Hamas, but allows Qatar and Turkey, two of his major allies in the region, to fund the terrorist group in its attempt to alienate it from the Iranian regime.
Similarly, he does not want Ukraine to lose, but he is also not convinced that it is interested in victory. The ideal, it seems, is for both sides to get tired and reach their own agreements. Both in Gaza and in Donbass. In short, It seems that the United States is giving up on acting as an empirebasis of the stability and prosperity that the West has enjoyed since the end of World War II. If this trend continues, the consequences could be fatal. There is always someone who wants to be caliph in the caliph’s place. And he is not ashamed of it.
