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Ukraine’s counteroffensive is on, additional tanks are scheduled to arrive and so are F-16s.
There is internal disarray in Russia with Prigozhin, the head of the mercenary group Wagner, at odds with Chechen warlord Kadyrov.
Putin’s hold on power may be tenuous. He’s not delivering the tamed Ukraine he had promised his obedient supporters.
In the battlefield, Ukrainians keep proving themselves courageous and ingenious, rigging up drones that penetrate deep behind enemy lines and sow fear in the hearts and minds of Putin supporters.
And yet the West, for all its effort, which is considerable, is still being timid.
The other day a headline in the WSJ spoke of a leader of the EU visiting at the White House to try to persuade Biden to fast track NATO membership for Ukraine, AFTER the war comes to an end.
Why after?
The time to act is now.
Why not give Ukrainians the powerful incentive of instant NATO membership the moment they push Russians to behind their borders?
It would be a tall task for Ukrainians to accomplish but they are more than up for it.
The difference in morale between Ukrainians and Russians is enormous.
Russia’s economy is suffering from a dearth of skilled workers.
Now is the time.
If Biden were to act, this war could be over before election day. Improbable? No.
Biden would sail through to his new term and have a real chance to carry out the huge infrastructure tasks he’s got started.
But a war that drags on is a…
