Analysis: Ukraine has made Joe Biden a wartime president. But is he up to the challenge? | FarrahTomazin
As a two-term vice-president, a politician for the last 50 years, and a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Joe Biden is no stranger to the drumbeat of war.
Determined to avoid intervening militarily, Biden’s aim this week was to reinforce his alternative strategy: support Ukraine through security and humanitarian assistance; choke Russia’s economy with unprecedented sanctions; and galvanise the west by strengthening the NATO alliance.Credit:The trouble, of course, is that this three-pronged approach requires something that Ukraine doesn’t have on its side: time.
Instead, Biden used his otherwise forceful speech today to simply reiterate what had already been announced, such as his pledge to provide $1.35 billion in weapons and ammunition; the US commitment to take 100,000 of the 3.7 million refugees who have been displaced so far; or the ambitious plan to send more liquified natural gas to Europe this year.
And was Biden deliberately calling for Putin to be removed when he passionately declared in his speech “for God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power”? Having labelled Putin “a butcher” earlier in the day for his unprovoked attack on Ukraine, Biden reminded his Russian counterpart that America had a “a sacred obligation” to defend NATO, so “don’t even think of moving on a single inch of NATO territory”.
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