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Obviously there's a proxy war between russia and the west in ukraine, but I don't think the US wants a long attritional war.
They could have done more to not end up in one, but I think escalation management really is driving a lot of decisions in washington.
Yeah, they probably told the Russians they were going to greenlight the Ukrainians way before they told the Ukrainians.
Which is tooth grindingly frustrating, but I can't fault Biden for his efforts to avoid nuclear exchange.