What’s Biden’s end state objective in Ukraine?

Published October 14, 2022 12:00am ET



The commander in chief was so opposed to forever wars that he recklessly withdrew U.S. forces from Afghanistan. But now, President Joe Biden seems committed to dragging America into an even bigger quagmire: a never-ending war in Ukraine that could go nuclear.

It gets worse. Biden might be giving tens of billions of dollars in aid to Kyiv, but he has never declared any sort of strategy or end state for the conflict. So as we literally take weapons out of our own Pentagon stockpiles to help Ukraine kill Russian soldiers, Americans have no clear strategy to look to. True, we keep getting told that the United States wants to see Ukraine achieve some sort of victory.

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