From the Hill / Yahoo!News:
"Opinion - Biden finally shows backbone in the face of Putin’s threats
Dov S. Zakheim
On Nov. 17, after nearly two months of internal soul-searching that resulted in what can only be termed unnecessary delay, President Joe Biden finally agreed to permit Ukraine to employ long-range ATACMS missile systems against Russian targets, initially in the Kursk region that Ukraine seized earlier this year...
Whatever his motives, Biden’s decision to grant the Ukrainians the ATACMS that they have long sought may signal that, at long last, with his term of office waning, the president has decided to no longer deter himself out of fear of a Russian nuclear threat that has not materialized. It is tragic that the White House took so long before it decided not to “go wobbly,” as Margaret Thatcher put it to George H.W. Bush on the eve of the 1991 Iraq War.
Had
Washington shown a couple of years ago the spine it is showing today in
the face of Putin’s hollow nuclear threats, the war in Ukraine might
well be long over. And Ukraine would have avoided so much of the massive
death and destruction that it continues to suffer."
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