Ukraine’s strike into Russia has been amazing – not just for its success but also for its surprise. What was particularly interesting, however, was not that the Russians were surprised, but that the Americans were apparently surprised, too. Obviously, things like this need to be kept as secret as possible in order to work.
But I wonder if the reason the Ukrainians apparently did not tell the Americans was to maintain the element of surprise – or because they figured that, if they told us, we would have told them not to do it – for fear, once again, of provoking Putin. Putin invaded Ukraine, and yet the Biden administration seems more worried about the Ukrainians somehow provoking Putin than what Russia does
Which makes you wonder, as I asked in this post, who is running American foreign policy? And whether anybody really cares that much about what the people running American foreign policy say or think?
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