The Observer reports that Biden’s Ukraine War Containment Strategy failed to prevent conflict escalation. Instead, it led to global economic damage and political shifts as well as strengthened anti-Western allies.
Simon Tisdall, The Observer’s foreign affairs columnist, argues that US president Joe Biden’s strategy to contain Russia‘s war against Ukraine “failed miserably”, and has led to devastating global implications.
Russian officials regularly threaten NATO and resorts to nuclear blackmail in order to influence Western military assistance to Ukraine and maintain restrictions regarding Ukraine’s use Western weapons. These threats are effective as shown by the West‘s continued reluctance to lift its long-standing prohibition on missile attacks inside Russia.
Tisdall, in an opinion piece published 26 October, analyzes how Biden’s March 2022 Warsaw address, which warned Russia not to move “on a single inch of NATO land,” represented a flawed strategy that now has backfired.
Tisdall claims that the conflict has expanded beyond its original scope, affecting Poland, Romania, and the Black Sea region through stray missiles, maritime attacks and engulfing Belarus. The commentator points out that Putin “claims now that the West has already waged war on Russia, and threatens it nuclear weapons.”
Tisdall says that the war has caused divisions in Western alliances. He points to “US-Europe Splits within NATO and the EU” on issues such as troop deployments, long-range rockets, and Ukraine’s potential NATO membership.
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