Congress has stepped up to the challenge, passing the Ukraine Democracy Lend Lease Act of 2022, and a $36 billion Ukraine aid appropriation, including $20 billion for weapons. This gives Biden all the authority he needs to send Ukraine the arms necessary for the country to prevail. But Biden is not doing so.
The Biden administration has greatly improved its orientation since the prewar period, when following the line advocated by Democratic Party foreign policy defeatists, it refused to send anything more than token arms to Ukraine. It arguably virtually invited the invasion by repeatedly declaring right up to the eve of Putin’s attack that the U.S. would not intervene with its own forces “under any scenario.”
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