When Joe Biden was running for president in 2020, his Democratic Party directed its fury toward Russian President Vladimir Putin. Democrats asserted and protested Putin’s interference in the 2016 U.S. elections. They lamented his warm personal relationship with then-President Donald Trump and what they claimed was its ensuing damage to U.S. alliances. They condemned Putin’s refusal to relinquish his control over Ukrainian territory, including Crimea.
Putin must be laughing now, because the tough-on-Putin rhetoric that defined Democrats in 2020 is but a distant memory. Instead, as measured by their position on a defining strategic issue, it is the Biden administration and its Democratic allies in the Senate who are actually colluding with Putin to stop a Republican plan to stop him.
