Biden and Scholz modulate military aid with Ukrainian lives
Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) in International Law, Harvard University
Clemens Wergin und Thorsten Jungholt of Die Welt report on the delays and hesitations in Washington and Berlin regarding the delivery by the U.S. of its ATACMS artillery rockets with a 300 km (180 mile) range and by Germany of its Taurus cruise missiles with a range of up to 500 km.1
Their report highlights the major defects in U.S. and NATO strategy regarding the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
Scholz is now waiting for Biden to send the ATACMS artillery rockets to Ukraine before he authorizes supplying the Taurus cruise missiles to Kiev.
In effect, as they have been doing since the beginning of the war, Biden and Scholz are modulating their supply of weapons to Ukraine with Ukrainian lives.
Probably thousands of Ukrainian soldiers’ lives would have been saved if Biden and Scholz, and particularly Biden, had not been so dilatory and indecisive in supplying modern weapons systems to Ukraine.
The result of their delays has been to give the Russian forces months to build formidable defenses in the South which have greatly slowed the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
The same American arrogance and hubris which marked Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan marks his decisions regarding the supply of weapons to Ukraine.