(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) What appears to be the increasing likelihood of a Russian defeat in Ukraine has fueled new questions over what to do if the superpower’s forces are repelled successfully.
While there appears to be no end game for a diplomatic resolution, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy seemed ready for a military one, by taking the fight to Moscow.
But doing so would create a precarious quagmire for the United States and fellow NATO allies who have been underwriting the shadow war against Russia while taking pains to avoid direct conflict.
Zelenskyy, along with a number of his officials, recently asked that the United States engage more directly by supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles, the Citizen Free Press reported.
But upon hearing this, even President Joe Biden, who sent $40 billion to the Ukrainian earlier in May, balked at the request.
Zelenskyy and his comrades insisted that the US and its allies provide Multiple Launch Rocket Systems as well as High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems .
When asked to respond to the requst, Biden immediately rejected the idea, saying it had “no rational basis.”
“We are not going to send to Ukraine rocket systems that can strike into Russia,” Biden said after arriving back at the White House from Delaware.
Other executive leaders across the West have supported the idea of aiding the Ukraine more directly, but so far Biden has kept the American military and its firepower mostly on the sidelines.
In response to Biden’s calm approach to the request, MSNBC personalities worked themselves into a frenzy.
Analyst Michael McFaul suggested that the decision not to help will lead to the end of Ukraine as we know it.
“There will only be an end to this war in three different scenarios: One, Putin conquers all of Ukraine, two, Ukraine pushes Russia out of Ukraine, or three, there’s a stalemate on the battlefield,” McFaul said.
“To me, option two and option three are the ones that we should be supporting,” he added, “and the way you do that is to give the Ukrainians [what] they need to achieve one of those two outcomes.”
