Walter Russell Mead: “A Russian victory would inflict an enormous blow to American status and the well being of the North Atlantic Treaty Group, particularly if the West have been observed as forcing Ukraine to give up to Russian calls for. Freezing the warfare may be perilous, as this might possibly depart Russia protecting much more Ukrainian territory than it did following the 2014 invasions of Crimea and the Donbas. It will be laborious to spin this as anything else however a partial victory for Russia—and Mr. Putin would stay unfastened to resume hostilities at a time of his opting for.”
“The failure to discourage Mr. Putin’s assault on Ukraine is greater than a failure of the Biden management. Donald Trump, Barack Obama and George W. Bush will have to percentage the blame. This failure would possibly end up to be even more expensive than failing to stop the 9/11 assaults, and President Biden’s position in historical past hangs on his talent to control the effects of this more and more unspeakable and unpredictable struggle.”
