Biden Backs US Allies Fighting for Their Lives — as Long as They Don’t Fight Too Hard; More Biden Half Measures for Ukraine: The US Will Finally Let Kyiv Hit Targets in RU, at Least a Little; RU Off in Kharkiv Stalls; UKR Still in Control of Chasiv Yar; UKR Destroys: 81 RU Air Targets, 12 Tanks, 44 Art-Sys, 1100 Sold, LIVE UPDATES and LOTS MORE

By admin On Jun 1, 2024

NY POST: Biden backs US allies fighting for their lives — as long as they don’t fight too hard:

President Biden has made his view on responding to foreign attacks painfully clear: America will help its allies fight back fiercely — as long as they don’t cause their enemies too much damage.

Wouldn’t want to risk escalating the situation, don’t you know.

It’s a clear recipe for losing and has already proved a tragic failure with foes like Russia, Iran, China, Hamas, the Taliban . . . .

Worst of all, it guarantees the one thing Biden supposedly fears most: more warfare.

Take Russia. Biden backs Ukraine in its fight to roll back Moscow’s illegal invasion, yet he insists Kyiv defend itself with its hands tied behind its back — as Vladimir Putin beats his chest and rattles his nukes.

No attacks on Russian soil will be tolerated, though he finally relaxed that rule slightly last week, allowing limited strikes in a border area near Kharkiv.

Nor will the US send the most powerful US weapons that could make a real difference.

Heck: Biden might’ve deterred Putin and prevented the war altogether by massively arming Ukraine before the invasion and signaling that Russia would risk a major conflict it would surely lose if it attacked.

Instead, the prez made clear Russia needn’t fear US and NATO involvement. —READ MORE HERE

WSJ: More Biden Half Measures for Ukraine:

The U.S. will finally let Kyiv hit targets in Russia, at least a little.

The Ukrainians have been on the brink since Vladimir Putin opened a new front in the country’s north this spring, and the Biden Administration is now responding late and with more half measures. That sums up two years of the Biden doctrine, and it won’t produce the Ukrainian success that is in U.S. interests.

The Administration this week revisited its ban on Ukraine using American weapons to strike targets on Russian territory. It has been obvious for months that Ukraine needs this authority. The Russian military is exploiting its home territory as a haven to gather troops and supplies and fire glide bombs at Ukrainian cities. The Russians can spread Ukraine’s military thin across a vast northern border without fear of retaliation.

More than two years into the war, the Biden Team has awakened to the problem of handing the enemy a sanctuary. The Administration is leaking to the press that Ukraine will now be able to strike targets in Russia. But wait: Ukraine will only be permitted to conduct some strikes with some types of weapons. Not allowed: Deep precision strikes with America’s long-range missiles known as ATACMS. In other words, memo to Mr. Putin: Move your forces a little further back and you’re good.

This timidity and micromanagement from the Biden Administration is the core reason the fight has devolved into a muddle. Mr. Biden’s advisers have run the Ukraine war on academic theories of managing escalation instead of a plan for defeating Russia’s invasion.

They have been reluctant to provide weapons quickly and at scale, other than air defenses. Mr. Biden approved training Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 a year ago, but the jets still aren’t in the sky. It isn’t clear Kyiv will ever receive enough aircraft, munitions, trained pilots and maintenance support to beat the much larger Russian air force. —>READ MORE HERE (or HERE)

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+++++Frontline report: Russian offensive in Kharkiv stalls with Vovchansk as bridges over river destroyed+++++

+++++Russia fires from Kanal neighborhood in three directions: military on situation in Chasiv Yar+++++

+++++Russian night attack: Ukrainian air defense destroys 81 air targets+++++

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