The Only “Exit Strategy” for Ukraine is Survival
Business school tropes have no place in war — especially when survival is the only goal.
When it comes to Ukraine aid, there are three types of Congressional Republicans in America:
The first group opposes Ukraine aid for the sole purpose of making President Joe Biden look bad, politically.
The second group is trying to score points with the extreme right in America who actually admire Vladimir Putin as some sort of white Evangelical savior and Trump ally.
The third group of Congressional Republicans is a little more sensible, although their objections are misguided.
For instance, take the argument that Ukraine’s aid “needs more oversight.”
First, the U.S. has placed guardrails on how Ukraine may use many American weapon systems to prevent escalation. Many of these defensive limitations were established so that Putin couldn’t say that the U.S. was directly facilitating strikes on Russian soil.
Personally, I think that’s a ridiculous limitation. Russian weapons have been used to kill Americans in every single U.S. conflict going back to the Korean War.
Regardless, I think this shows that the Biden administration is putting serious thought into the consequences of America’s actions…
