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Biden's tough-on-Putin policy is all talk
« on: April 21, 2021, 11:17:54 am »

Biden's tough-on-Putin policy is all talk
by Tom Rogan, Commentary Writer |
 | April 16, 2021 06:00 AM

 

Facing Vladimir Putin, America's second most eminent adversary, President Joe Biden is fashionably presented as some kind of ordained savior. Biden, the casual thinking goes, is the antidote to President Donald Trump's Russian appeasement policy.

There is little factual basis for this understanding. He might call Putin a killer, then a couple of weeks later call up Putin to ask for a summit, but Biden is weak on Russia. So far, at least. Let's start out at sea.

Washington recently gave Turkey, which supervises the Turkish straits, notice that two U.S. Navy destroyers would enter the Black Sea this week. These deployments were a semi-regular fixture under the Trump administration (alongside even more direct naval challenges to Russia), designed to show support for Ukraine as it grapples with continuing Russian aggression. But as Politico reported on Thursday, the latest navy deployment has been canceled. This is because, as one Biden administration official tells the news outlet, "Naval movements are frequently subject to change due to maintenance or shifting operational plans. ... This particular transit was scrapped due to a 'myriad' of reasons, including a desire not to provoke Moscow during a delicate time, the person said."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-tough-on-putin-policy-is-all-talk