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The outcome of the conflict will be the only metric that matters for assessing Biden's performance. If we end up spending hundreds of billions of dollars and ha
by lizardking 3y ago
The outcome of the conflict will be the only metric that matters for assessing Biden's performance. If we end up spending hundreds of billions of dollars and have nothing to show for it except Russia controlling the territory they originally intended to seize, it will be difficult to consider anything we are doing as 'skillful'. Dumping money and weapons into the proxy war du jour is the default policy of D.C.
- nonethewiser 3y agoBiden shouldnt be judged on the outcome of Ukraine. And im no fan of Biden. But its just not in his power nor all of NATO, unless we got in a direct conflict with Russia. And sadly, this is more normal than peace when it comes to Russian border states.
- lizardking 3y agoAmerican leadership deserves to be judged if they commit hundreds of billions of dollars to cause with no benefit to the American public. A Russian victory that we are spending huge sums to prevent doesn’t bring any benefit to the American public.
- GolfPopper 3y agoA Russian victory in Ukraine being would be Pyrrhic. No matter what the PR on the war's eventual end is, Putin hollowed out Russia to fight this war. The negative impacts on Russia will last until the end of this century, and beyond.
- nonethewiser 3y agoIm not sure I agree that the US shouldn’t fund Ukraine. Very sympathetic to that but not sure I agree. And yes Biden deserves blame for it to the extent that anyone deserves blame for it. But that’s entirely different than blaming him for not solving the crisis.