Public Comment

During the past month the world has been horrified by the devastation in Ukraine and inspired by the courage of its people. Recently, the tide seems to have turned in Ukraine’s favor after giving the Russian troops a bloody nose. Interestingly, the Putin government has scaled back from Kyiv, the capital, to what Moscow calls the contested region of Domas. 

This would be a good time for the Biden administration to reach out and offer Putin the framework for a peace agreement. If Putin snubs the offer, the US and other NATO allies should accelerate shipments of new arms to further shift the balance of power in Ukraine’s favor. Biden must stress it is not NATO’s intention to kill more Russians, they are only unwitting pawns in Putin’s geopolitical power play. Biden should refrain hurling insults at Putin least they boomerang back on Biden’s support for ongoing weapons sales to Saudi Arabia who are committing unspeakable war crimes in Yemen, blowing up innocent men, women and children and starving the general population. Finally, Biden’s call for regime change in Russia and then have his administrative desperately walk back his careless comments, makes it exceedingly more difficult to reach a cease fire agreement and only reinforces his reputation as a “gaffe machine”.