Commentary
The tragedy of Ukraine is that President Joe Biden’s appeasement and weak response was predictable. He’s turned out to be who this author said he would be in December 2020. Biden doesn’t comprehend deterrence, and neither does his party. I wrote here in “The Epoch Times”:
“Biden represents a return to the weak-kneed diplomacy and hollow military of the Obama years. As far back as 1975 Biden condemned what he called the idea that the United States should ‘police the world’ by opposing communism. He has never comprehended the value of deterrence as a diplomatic tool. … Aggressive foes such as Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Kim Jong-un pocket every concession they receive. … Aimless diplomacy and trade measures seldom subdue an aggressor, the most prominent example being the appeasement of Adolf Hitler in 1938, which did nothing to prevent him from starting World War II a year later in 1939. … Biden’s lack of understanding of deterrence as the key point of U.S. defense policy would endanger our national security and that of our allies.”Now here we are, and history is repeating itself. Here we are a year into Biden’s presidency, and some argue that we’re in the opening phase of World War III. Polish leaders see a close correlation between the impotence of the West and the failure against Hitler between the time he invaded Poland in September 1939 and the invasion of France and the Low Countries six months later that was called “The Phony War.” They’re right.
