The Biden Legacy: War With Russia? by Doug Bandow

President Joe Biden approved another escalation in his administration’s long march to turn an already extravagant proxy fight into a hot war. He reversed more than two years of policy, easing range limits on Ukraine’s use of American-supplied missiles against Russia.

The mentally diminished president justified his decision as retaliation for North Korea’s dispatch of troops to aid Russia’s war effort. He reportedly hopes to dissuade the North from sending more men, apparently by stoking Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s fear of additional casualties.

Yet before the first North Korean entered the battlefield, Pyongyang reportedly had sent Russia 8 million artillery shells plus short-range ballistic missiles, a far more important piece of assistance for the Russian military than a few thousand inexperienced soldiers. The latter aren’t going to change the military balance, which already is running strongly against Ukraine. Trying to deter the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from participating in the war is closing the barn doors after the animals have fled. …

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