FP: In 2022, the US administration promised to Putin not to let Russia lose

 In an Oct. 9 Foreign Policy article titled What a New Book's Explosive Revelations Tell Us About Biden, Trump, And Putin, by Michael Hirsh, in addition to Trump bashing (surely well deserved), there are intriguing paragraphs about the outgoing president Biden:

"...In the two and a half years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden has often been criticized for temporizing over his response and failing to offer the Ukrainians sufficient defensive weaponry quickly enough. He has hesitated in sending first-generation main battle tanks such as the M1A1 Abrams, long-range precision artillery, and fighter jets such as the F-16—though ultimately he has done so. And in October 2022, after Ukraine had launched its successful Kharkiv counteroffensive, Biden warned Americans of a potential nuclear “Armageddon,” saying it was the first time since the Cuban missile crisis that there had been a “direct threat” of nuclear weapons being deployed...

The degree to which Ukraine has fought off Russia’s advances, causing hundreds of thousands of Russian casualties, is also very worrisome in view of another conversation that Woodward recounts between U.S. Gen. Mark Milley, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his Russian counterpart, Gen. Valery Gerasimov. Asked to state the conditions for a Russian use of nuclear weapons, Gerasimov responded that one of them involved “the right to use tactical nuclear weapons in the event of catastrophic battlefield loss.” Milley responded at the time that “none of those conditions are going to obtain.”

But they could before long.

Thus, the world now has a better idea why Biden has acted as he has..."

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In other words, Putin's army invading Ukraine (whose safety the USA had guaranteed with the Budapest Memorandum), razing cities to the ground, murdering thousands of civilians, is no reason for concern. What is "very worrisome" is "the degree to which Ukraine has fought off Russia’s advances". Ukrainian columnist Olexandr Kirsh comments in the Obozrevatel:

"...Milley then calmly promised that these conditions will not be realized, that it, he effectively guaranteed that US aid to Ukraine will never lead to a situation in which we could talk about a Russian catastrophe. So the United States promised Mordor that Ukraine will never defeat it, and all the record of later US arm supplies testifies that the USA is keeping its word. Indeed, Ukraine is not winning."

This is a horrible betrayal of a democratic ally, and proves that the USA as a defender of the Western civilization does not exist anymore.