The world’s weak leadership isn’t up to the Ukraine crisis
By Glenn H. Reynolds
March 3, 2022 6:53pm Updated
A crisis of leadership hinders the West's response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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The world is facing its biggest political/military crisis since the end of the Cold War, and for better or worse, the leadership of its largest countries has serious problems. Probably for worse.
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Here in the United States, meanwhile, we have leadership problems of our own. President Joe Biden managed to stumble his way through an uninspired State of the Union address in which he confused Ukrainians and Iranians, but he has shown no signs of being capable of the kind of leadership we need. (Unlike the Germans, he’s not even rethinking his dumb energy policies, which need to be changed to promote energy independence and weaken Putin further.)
Everybody knows this, and Democrats aren’t happy about it, but removing Joe wouldn’t help as Vice President Kamala Harris seems to be no improvement. Her kindergarten-level statement on Ukraine in an interview sounded like something out of a “Saturday Night Live” skit: “So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong.”
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