Are We Sure America Is Not at War in Ukraine?

In the more than three months since Russia invaded Ukraine, the Biden administration has said a lot of things about the war. It had to walk a few of them back almost immediately, like when President Biden’s statement that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power” turned out not to be a call for regime change. On other points, its rhetoric has sharpened over time: In March, America’s goal was to help Ukraine defend itself; by the end of April it was a “weakened” Russia.

But on one thing the administration has been very consistent: America won’t get into war with Russia for Ukraine.

“We do not seek a war between NATO and Russia,” President Biden wrote in The Times at the end of May. “As much as I disagree with Mr. Putin, and find his actions an outrage, the United States will not try to bring about his ouster in Moscow. So long as the United States or our allies are not attacked, we will not be directly engaged in this conflict, either by sending American troops to fight in Ukraine or by attacking Russian forces.”

Much of the praise and critique of Mr. Biden’s Ukraine policy has accepted his version of events. But are we sure Americans can reliably recognize when we’ve joined a war?

Presidents have a history of insisting they have no intention of going to war, until they do. “He kept us out of war,” President Woodrow Wilson’s 1916 re-election slogan declared, only for Wilson to take us into World War I a mere month into his second term, right after describing American intervention as inevitable.

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3 Comments

  1. SFC Steven M Barry USA RET June 22, 2022 at 10:54

    The US has been at war in Ukraine since 2014. The US started that war — as usual.
    S//

  2. A Stain in the Kraine June 22, 2022 at 15:10

    Without supplies leftover from the Graveyard Of Empires wouldn’t it have been over months ago?
    Comrade commissar Musk supplies satellite coordinates for the disco comedian dance troupe rainbow bathhouse of democracy as well.

  3. Chris June 22, 2022 at 18:48

    “Police Action”
    “Advisors”
    “Con-tractors”
    “Patriot Act”
    “Is”

    That is all

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