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    The One Key Word Biden Needs to Invoke on Ukraine

    He should call it a fight not for democracy but for sovereignty.
    by Stephen Wertheim Jun 11, 2022 5 minutes
    Source: The Atlantic

    In World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt rallied what he dubbed the “United Nations,” among them Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union, to keep the Axis powers from eliminating whole countries across Europe and Asia. After the Cold War, George H. W. Bush likewise assembled a 35-nation coalition to beat back Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. America’s partners lined up behind a principle they all had a stake in defending—that Saddam Hussein had no right to trample out of existence another country’s sovereignty, not even that of a small Persian Gulf emirate.

    Today, President Joe Biden is missing an opportunity that these leaders once seized. In a series of , including his latest , Biden has repeatedly as “a great battle for freedom: a battle between democracy and autocracy.” The observation

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