From: The Hill By Jonathan Sweet and Mark Toth, Opinion Contributors
The Biden administration’s policy of “ just enough ” is proving to be insufficient to win in Ukraine.
Minimalist in construct, the strategy only reductively and reactively addresses critical battlefield requirements when they threaten Ukraine’s survival. U.S. military support to Ukraine has become subordinate to White House fears of not further antagonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin. Intended to avoid escalation, in practice, it is resulting in just that.
Alarmingly, Biden’s “just enough” policy is ceding the initiative to Russia on the front lines. Ukraine’s armed forces are already spread a mile wide and an inch deep.
Getting Biden’s permission to play whack-a-mole every time the Kremlin changes conditions on the battlefield is no way to fight a war. Yet the White House insists on controlling the use of the weapons and munitions it provides Ukraine.
In an interview with ABC News anchor David Muir in Normandy, France on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, Biden said, “We’re not authorizing strikes 200 miles into Russia and we’re not authorizing strikes on Moscow, on the Kremlin….They’re authorized to be used in proximity to the border when they’re being used on the other side of the border to attack specific targets in Ukraine.”
Voice of Ukraine 