https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/1/us-rules-out-ukraine-no-fly-zone-after-zelenskyy-appealBiden, put together a fucking army on the Western border of Ukraine and start working towards a no fly zone, stop with this pussy shit. Even if your primary concern is re-election like it always is with the polishits in your crew, how you think you do with Putin in Kiev in November? Stop looking for the easy way out, you have Putin right where you want him except that he sees you doing not enough to counter the invasion and backing away. Whatever happened to "all options on the table"? Is that limited to opponents who don't have nukes? No wonder they are so popular in "rogue" states!
You have a very short window it appears until it is likely that you will lose control in the Congress and the party that has influential if not dominating Putin sympathizers in it are able to torpedo WhAtEvEr you do on their principle of obstruction. Right now there are people in their party telling the Putin sympathetic Republicans to STFU and sit down, which will not keep working if you ignore them by allowing Ukraine to fall. There's how it's in your political interest, while the public broadly agrees despite the efforrts of Tucker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_columnThis whole time of the buildup I didn't call for you to be ready because you got out ahead and said these things are off the table. I would have had to contradict you and been jumped on by both sides to the detriment of my position, since the righty base may have been convinced to take the opposite position by default and punish the no to Putin Republicans by affiliation with "liberal" ideas once the 5th Column had a moment to realize they had such an opportunity. Now that you. Biden, have found yoiur way here, you still do these things and I can't in good conscience not say anything about the lack of strategic flexibility regarding preparedness that seems to be a running theme in foreign policy.
I was going to post an old quote by myself from 2014, the previous time I posted about a no fly zone in Ukraine. I found it the first day I heard Kinzinger propose a no fly zone, finding it with the search function, but it is not finding it today. Is the search function messed up due to the forum errors? Also is quoting from an ancient thread from 2014 a good idea, or does it misquote or shiver the gears of the forums so to speak? I posted a lot on Ukraine over the years at times like today, and while I found results prior to today I can't find them on today's search.
While I cannot find the quote, it was in response to a reply that stated invading Russia would start WW3. In my response and what I sought to quote was a statement that the idea of crossing the Russian border was not needed, as the forces involved would have no need to push past the Ukrainian borders.
I think at the very least if you sit and watch the absolute calumnity that is about to unfold, you will soon want to make an exclusion zone/ humanitarian corridor etc at some point such as the Turks have done in Syria. You will need forces there beforehand for that, even if you cannot place a counter invasion army there like your Eastern European NATO friends would prefer you will need a substantial force that will not be cowed by Putin's threats.