The policies of President Joe Biden’s administration are prolonging the war in Ukraine and benefitting Russia. The White House was unprepared for Moscow’s full-scale conquest and has consistently prevented Ukraine from stymieing the aggressor. 

The partial lifting of prohibitions on using United States-supplied weapons, allowing them to hit military targets in Russia only if they pose an immediate threat to Ukrainian forces, is clearly insufficient. Instead, President Volodymyr Zelensky is pleading for permission for long-range strikes against Russia’s military infrastructure to help shorten the war.