For more on this, we are being joined by Jonah
Blank,
who is the former foreign policy advisor to President Joe
Biden.
He's joining us live from Washington,
DC Joda, welcome back to WE on US.
House Speaker Mike Johnson says that Ukraine should be able
to fight the war as they see fit.
What are your thoughts on that and what could happen
in your view?
Well, thank you for having me on.
I think that there is enough international support for the
idea of allowing Ukraine to use NATO,
NATO weapons for attacks on Russian soil that this is
not really going to be likely to escalate the war.
The UK, Lithuania and Finland have already agreed to this
type of dispensation,
and all three of them are under much more direct
threat from Vladimir Putin than the US is.
And that's very interesting. And how is it that we
see a change of course now because the United States
noted the Biden administration seemed to have always taken the
less least confrontational approach when it came to dealing with
Ukraine,
its policies on Ukraine and whatnot.
What is the change?
Well, President Biden has been quite careful not to escalate
the war,
and rightly so. I mean,
this is a dangerous situation.
And let's be clear that if the decision is taken
to allow Ukraine to use US sourced weapons for attacks
on Russian soil,
that would be a danger.
But let's also look at the other side of the
equation.
Vladimir Putin, at least in my judgment,
is unlikely to take a reckless action in the next
half year.
Precisely because of the pending American election right now of
Vladimir Putin has a 50%
chance of seeing a US administration a year from now
that will give him everything he wants.
If Mr. Trump is elected,
he's made pretty clear that he will withdraw US support
for Ukraine and might even withdraw the US from NATO.
If Vladimir Putin were to take reckless action before the
election,
that would likely hurt the cause.
Of him getting Mr. Trump elected,
which very much is in Putin's interest.
All right, thank you so much for that,
Mister Jonah Blake. I look forward to speaking to you
again very soon as we follow this story.
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