Harrop: Ukraine is doing the fightin, but we're still in a war
We and our allies are in a war to save civilization. Fortunately for us, Ukrainians are doing the fighting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s barbaric assault on Ukraine has awakened Europe to the reality that he is truly evil and could continue his march westward. It is no coincidence that Sweden and Finland — once fiercely neutral countries — now show serious interest in joining NATO. Ukraine is not in NATO, which is why members of the military alliance have held back in sending in their forces.
It is also the West’s good fortune that Joe Biden is president and not Donald Trump. Overseeing a flood of arms to Ukraine as it fights alone, Biden is playing Franklin Roosevelt to Ukraine’s Winston Churchill, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. And he’s doing it carefully, working with allies to squeeze Russia financially and giving Ukraine the means to defend itself, all the while carefully trying to avoid a wider conflict.
This is a full-time job whose consequences are not politically helpful. Confronting Putin has raised the cost of gasoline. It’s making food more expensive. The resulting inflation has hiked the cost of borrowing to buy a home.
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