bluff. The aggressive stance and warlike talk during the past few weeks from the Xiden* regime is evolving given Putin's military buildup. What did they think they would accomplish? NATO isn't doing anything without American muscle and our foreign policy and military are in disarray.
"President Joe Biden has now taken a waiver on the "unwavering", full-throated support that he, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had been giving to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The recurring "unwavering" meme was played right up until late Tuesday after Biden’s telephone talk with Putin Tuesday."
"With strong rhetorical support from the U.S. and NATO, the Ukrainian regime seemed eager to let slip the dogs of war. Then someone – whether in Washington or Moscow, or both – apparently told Zelensky that "unwavering" rhetoric was not going to protect him from disaster, should he tweak too tightly the nose of the Russian bear. On April 9, Zelensky used his Facebook page to call off the dogs of war and stress the need to establish a new truce in the Donbass. Earlier that day the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces had said that the use of force to "liberate" the Donbass is unacceptable,"
Biden and Blinken Blink on Ukraine
https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2021/04/14/biden-and-blinken-blink-on-ukraine/