President Biden's Historic Ukraine Visit Comes as Russia Nears a Grim Milestone in Troop Losses
Today, I woke up to a good bit of historic news: President Biden was in Kyiv. After leaving Washington, D.C. under the cover of darkness, he landed in the capital of Ukraine and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to Ukraine as the first anniversary of Russia's brutal and unprovoked invasion nears. He was among the last Western leaders to do so for obvious reasons: the president of the United States is the leader of the free world, and the United States has provided more support to Ukraine than all other nations combined.
The significance of this trip cannot be understated: this is the only time in American history that a president has visited an active war zone without a major U.S. troop presence. President Biden took a small, civilian-style aircraft to Germany, where they refueled before flying to Poland. Once there, the president took a train into Kyiv, where he and Zelenskyy were transported by armored vehicles around the city, from the presidential palace to downtown.
In order to avert any intentional or unintentional moves that might start World War III, Russia was notified in the hours before President Biden's arrival. In response, rather than continuing airstrikes, Russia decided to attempt to symbolically assert its power by flying a plane over Kyiv. This move backfired tremendously: the result of an enemy aircraft is an air raid siren, and the footage that resulted in this case was the president of the United States casually strolling through the street during an air raid siren. This, as intended by the U.S., was good publicity for Ukraine and her Western allies. Thanks, Russia, for the unwitting help in this.
This is not the only significant development on the U.S. side of things as it relates to the Russo-Ukrainian War this week. Earlier, at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Vice President Kamala Harris made the first formal U.S. accusations of crimes against humanity against Putin and his bloody regime. President Biden is on his way to Poland to give a speech on the first anniversary of the war.
All of this comes as Russia is likely just days away from hitting a gruesome new milestone in troop losses: 150,000, according to Ukraine's count. The initial Russian invasion force that entered Ukraine was 180,000 or so men, which means that Russia is likely to have lost the equivalent of its entire initial invasion force sometime this spring. One thing is becoming clearer by the day: if Russia wants even the smallest sliver of a chance at winning, Putin would need to enact full conscription. I doubt even the brainwashed zombies also known as the Russian public would be able to support that for too long. Either Putin can let Ukraine go and likely lose power or he can do everything he can to take Ukraine and likely lose his power. The only just outcome is this butcher ending up in the Hague for crimes against humanity. However, in the meantime, with your health and political status both beyond salvation, maybe you should just do the right thing, Mr. Putin.
The right thing is nothing short of complete and total victory for those who have fought so bravely to defy their oppressors. Slava Ukraini!
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