For Biden presidency, Ukraine crisis offers a defining moment
As Russia’s Vladimir Putin has amassed more than 125,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, a mobilization that threatens the largest military operation in Europe since World War II, he has accomplished something he almost certainly did not intend.
President Putin has reinvigorated President Joe Biden’s Atlanticist roots. And he is breathing new life into a transatlantic alliance that in recent years has revealed fissures and a faltering unity of purpose – between Europe’s East and West, and between a Europe less focused on security issues and an America anxious to turn eastward toward Asia and an assertive China.
Moreover, the Russian leader’s efforts to smother Ukraine’s fledgling, pro-Western democracy have helped put meat on the bones of President Biden’s ringing but as-yet squishy call to defend the world’s democracies.
Indeed, some foreign policy analysts say Mr.
