White House officials said the president’s reversal, a major policy shift, extended only to what they characterized as acts of self-defense so that Ukraine could protect Kharkiv, its second-largest city.
  • Triasha@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Yeah, they probably told the Russians they were going to greenlight the Ukrainians way before they told the Ukrainians.

    Which is tooth grindingly frustrating, but I can’t fault Biden for his efforts to avoid nuclear exchange.