The United States is not coming to Ukraine’s rescue

Vladimir Putin picked his timing carefully. U.S. President Joe Biden appears as a weak leader of a divided country and a member of a party that is likely on its way out of power, and Europe is divided on how to confront the crisis while it remains dependent on Russian oil and gas.

Vladimir Putin, right, has been watching the U.S. closely in order to time his invasion of Ukraine while America is divided and distracted, argues Michael Harris. The two leaders are pictured here at a 2021 meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

February 28, 2022

HALIFAX—Former Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko has described Vladimir Putin in a nutshell. “He’s just simply mad. He’s just simply crazy. He’s just simply evil to come here to kill Ukrainians.” If Poroshenko has it right, the world has awakened to its worst nightmare. How do you dea...

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