THE STAKES ARE HIGH: RUSSIAN - UKRAINE WAR
THE STAKES ARE HIGH - RUSSIAN UKRAINE WAR.
Onyee, not exactly, but I think Biden hasn't really done well in diplomacy lately. In relation to his scripted words, I must attest that the stakes are high, but even before we calculating the damages that may cause, there are a good number of questions that are demanding for answers:
Onyee, not exactly, but I think Biden hasn't really done well in diplomacy lately. In relation to his scripted words, I must attest that the stakes are high, but even before we calculating the damages that may cause, there are a good number of questions that are demanding for answers:
1) Did the President's comment dangerously escalate already high tensions in the worst confrontation between the West and Russia in decades?
2) Has Biden shaken international confidence in his so-far strong leadership in bringing the NATO alliance together in a united front against Moscow? And will Putin be able to exploit disquiet over Biden's comments in European capitals?
3) Will the notion that Biden hopes to topple Putin -- even if the US says it's not true -- harden the embattled Russian leader's resolve against negotiations or cause him to further escalate an already merciless war against civilians?
4) Has Biden's now stinging rhetoric about Putin effectively ruled out any future direct diplomacy or meetings between the world's top nuclear powers -- and could it endanger global peace if they can't communicate in a future crisis that threatens humanity?
5) Or will Biden's human reaction to spending time with Ukrainian refugees soon be overtaken by the daily unfolding horror of the war or come to be seen as a strong moral stand that changed the way the world views the Russian leader? After all, ex-President Ronald Reagan's call for then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in Berlin was initially opposed by some of his own aides as too provocative.
6) And finally, since Moscow already sees extraordinarily tough Western sanctions as economic warfare and given Putin's deeply conspiratorial view of the West and its role in vanquishing the Soviet Union, can a few loose.
