By Gil Barndollar and Justin Logan
Listening to the commentariat, one would think America had abandoned Ukraine. Earlier this month, more than two dozen Ukraine experts invoked the Holocaust in calling for a US-led No Fly Zone in Ukraine, a move that almost certainly would lead to a NATO-Russia war.
Barack Obama's ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, declared in the Washington Post that "More fighter jets, more surface-to-air missiles systems and more counter-fire weapons against long-range artillery are needed immediately."
In an interview with The Economist, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba blamed Western caution for Ukraine's casualties: If the West says "we can give this [weapon], but we cannot give that [weapon] — they only extend the suffering of Ukrainians, they contribute to the toll of dead civilians, and they only facilitate the further destruction of Ukrainian cities and villages."
This piece was originally published in Spectator on March 29, 2022. Read more HERE.