Ukraine Update

Do you think we're living under failed leadership? According to the polls, most Americans believe we are. But just consider the frontpage of today's Washington Post.

The lead story is headlined: "Putin Sends Troops To Eastern Ukraine." The subtitle reads: "White House Wrestles With What Counts As An 'Invasion.'"

If you like comedy, you can watch the Comedy Channel on cable. But if you're Vladimir Putin, you can just watch this White House. Biden caused a panic in the White House recently when he seemingly gave Putin the greenlight for "a minor incursion" into Ukraine.

I have been in a lot of White House meetings. But I can't imagine what White House meetings are like now! 

Yesterday, Putin recognized two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine as independent states, and ordered Russian troops and tanks across the border into those regions. 

Just to remind you, there are estimates that Russia has massed 1,200 tanks along the border of Ukraine. This is a fully mechanized force. To repel this invasion, we would have to deploy tanks to Ukraine, and so would NATO. But I don't see that happening.

Even though Russian troops have entered these Ukrainian provinces, I can see why Biden might be confused about whether it is an "invasion." He doesn't believe that what he is allowing at the southern border is an invasion either.