A Rhetorical Evasion

What is the US’s strategy for helping Ukraine? 

Remember when President Joe Biden was a stalwart supporter of Ukraine’s freedom? This past week, in his valedictory at the United Nations. The less admirable side of Biden’s Ukraine legacy was on display. The Biden administration refuses to level with Congress and the American public about its strategy to win the war, according to the WSJ.

As part of its Ukraine supplemental funding bill this year, Congress stipulated that the Biden Administration submit a strategy for U.S. aid, due within 45 days. The Administration has been notorious for dragging its feet on specific weapons or failing to offer systems in the quantities required for Ukraine to retake its territory from Russia.

(The Biden/Harris) team has hidden behind platitudes such as supporting Ukraine “as long as it takes,” which isn’t a strategy. It long ago became a rhetorical evasion.

Biden Won’t/Can’t Fill in the Blanks 

The Biden administration is right to articulate a larger theory of how Ukraine can use the assistance to regain momentum and take more territory back from Mr. Putin.

The stagnation on the battlefield has produced public skepticism in the U.S. that jeopardizes continuing American support no matter who wins the presidential race, even though American voters don’t want Mr. Putin to prevail. But Mr. Biden isn’t filling in the blanks.

President Joe Biden had to present a strategy to Congress. It was necessary to get aid through Congress, so Biden signed the bill.

Yet the Administration submitted the document “months after the congressionally mandated deadline,” says a statement this week from a group of House Republicans, including pro-Ukraine Reps. Mike Rogers, Michael McCauland, and Mike Turner (chairmen of the Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence committees), respectively.

A Typical Biden Stonewall 

Because the document is entirely classified, GOP lawmakers are calling on the Biden/Harris administration to release an unclassified version, as Congress stipulated, so the public can digest and debate its merits.

Unanswered Questions

Ms. Harris, According to a NYT poll, 31% of voters are uncomfortable that they do not know more about you. All you need to do is answer a few simple questions:

“Why do you want to be the president, Kamala Harris? Why are you the right leader for this moment?” 

Is that too much to ask?