Russia-Ukraine war enters the danger zone

Anassumption made by the Biden administration was that Putin would hold fire until Trump gets sworn in on January 20, 2025. They may soon be proved wrong.

- M.D. NALAPAT

Once he was forced out of the US Presidential contest in July, President Biden seems to have lost the motivation needed to carry on with a job that in many ways is as demanding as it is powerful. Hence he may have only nodded his head when the many Russophobes clustered within his administration asked for formal approval to send long range missiles to Ukraine, something that President Vladimir Putin had warned would cross a red line that he would not ignore. The Russophobes have been bitterly disappointed that despite strenuous efforts, the Russian Federation remains united. Worse, Putin continues to be in charge at the Kremlin. Not incorrectly, they believe that it has been Putin who has, since taking office at the turn of the last century, been the architect of the turnaround of the Russian Federation from the abyss of being a failed and dismembered state. Boris Yeltsin was doing an excellent job of causing such a catastrophe, and if he had continued in a figurehead role in the Kremlin for a few years longer, the Russophobes in Washington are convinced that they could have succeeded in dismembering the Russian Federation.