It is critical to remind Americans: The Biden-Harris Administration has failed at one of the most important tasks facing American presidents since 1945: preventing wars of conquest on the European continent. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are more than happy to enable the media hounding conservatives over differences about Ukraine policy, but conservatives must not let them off the hook for their deterrence failures.
This war should never have started and with the right policies could have advanced a Ukrainian victory. Instead, Europe continues to experience its most significant land war in generations. There have been three critical faults with Biden-Harris policies: a failure to deter Moscow, a failure to equip Ukraine, and a failure to weaken Russia’s economy which funds the war effort.
It’s no surprise Putin isn’t scared of the Biden-Harris Administration; they have already showed they aren’t willing to fight when they abandoned thousands of Americans behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. The weakness shown by Biden and Harris has truly hurt our credibility.
If Biden and Harris had sent the systems Ukraine asked for when they needed them, many thousands of Ukrainian lives would have been saved and the odds of peace would have been much higher. Instead, they are pursuing a self-defeating strategy that provides Ukraine enough to prevent loss but not enough to enable victory.
From the day he took office, President Biden and his team implemented a series of policies that strengthened Putin’s hand, undermined Ukraine, signaled weakness, and demonstrated a dangerous lack of willingness to defend Ukraine. In Biden’s own words, “Putin thought Ukraine was weak and the West was divided…he thought he could outlast us.” Here are just a few of the Biden Administration’s actions that laid the groundwork for an invasion:
The Biden Administration fought off the Nord Stream 2 sanctions before the war. Since Putin’s invasion, they have repeatedly refused to implement meaningful sanctions that would actually deprive the Russian war machine of the resources and funds to continue their rampage.
It is critical for America’s security that we help Ukraine defeat Russia and decimate its military capabilities. Russia’s invasion has brought it closer to attacking a NATO country, which we have a legal treaty obligation to defend. Weakening Russia now reduces the chance Americans will have to fight Russia on the battlefield later.
We should always stand with our democratic friends against authoritarian tyrants. But just from the standpoint of America’s interests, supporting Ukraine’s war effort is a bargain: Ukrainian forces will cripple the military of a chief U.S. rival with zero American casualties. All Ukrainians ask for is the weapons to defend themselves.
There are other reasons “America First” conservatives should support Ukraine. A Ukrainian victory will help deter Chinese aggression and decrease the risk of war in Taiwan, all while weakening the Sino-Russian partnership. It will also save the American taxpayer billions in the long- run by creating more stable security conditions in Europe and reducing our need to spend on the continent’s defense. A Russian victory would do the opposite, as Putin would potentially absorb Belarus and further threaten our eastern NATO allies. And providing weapons to Ukraine gives us a unique opportunity to test our weaponry and hone our technology.
Conservatives are right to debate the scale of our involvement in Ukraine and how to balance domestic and international challenges. We must continue to pressure European countries – particularly in Western Europe – to do more themselves. While military support is expensive, it is more costly for us to abandon Ukraine. Without American support, Ukrainian forces will not have the weapons they need to defeat Putin and will literally run out of bullets, leading Russia to advance westward where they will be postured to threaten our NATO flank even further. Now is the moment to take President Reagan’s advice and seek “peace through strength.” America fought to break up the Soviet Union, once our greatest foe. We should not sit back to watch Putin try to reassemble that evil empire and assume there will be no long- term consequences for our interests.
History teaches us that we cannot just ignore a war in Europe and think it will not affect us. In the 1930s, Europe ignored Hitler as he expanded his territory. That apathy fueled the start of World War II. Conservatives should support Ukraine not for her sake and interests but for our own; because it’s in the interest of America.
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