Timing of Biden’s delivery of military aid to Ukraine is carefully calculated

Joe Biden would be offering an open goal to Donald Trump (or some other Republican rabble-rouser, if Trump is in jail by then) if the war in Ukraine is still raging in November 2024.

While U.S. President Joe Biden, seen here, supports Ukraine’s sovereignty, he will do nothing that startles Russian President Vladimir Putin into a nuclear over-reaction, writes Gwynne Dyer.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 24, 2023

LONDON, U.K.—A great many people are glad that U.S. President Joe Biden has finally agreed that Ukraine can be supplied with modern Western aircraft—specifically F-16s—but they are still cross about his procrastination and worried that he has waited too long. From Ukra...

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