‘Putin will only stop when we stop him.’ Close Biden ally pushes for US troops in Ukraine | Washington Examiner

‘PUTIN WILL ONLY STOP WHEN WE STOP HIM.’ CLOSE BIDEN ALLY PUSHES FOR U.S. TROOPS IN UKRAINE. Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, from President Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware, has been called the president’s “closest Senate ally” and even a “shadow secretary of state.” When he travels abroad, Coons is widely thought to speak for the president. “The fact that I am known to have a close relationship with [Biden] helps me deliver a more forceful message,” Coons told Politico last year.

Now, Coons is using his clout to nudge Biden toward sending U.S. troops to fight the war in Ukraine. Last Thursday, he gave the Vandenberg Lecture at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. He said the United States is “coming right up against a Cuban missile crisis,” by which he meant there will soon be a “direct confrontation between NATO, the United States, the West, and Russia.” Mixing his historical references, he said today is “a 1939 moment,” referring to events leading to the start of World War II in Europe.

Coons predicted there will “almost certainly be an incident” in which Russian leader Vladimir Putin “goes too far, either within Ukraine by using chemical weapons or just over the border by claiming an accident in which a cruise missile strikes an arms depot where Americans are unloading Stinger missiles from a C-17 about to go across the border.” At that point, Coons said, the U.S. will have to decide whether to send troops to Ukraine. “It is important that in a bipartisan and measured way, we in Congress and the administration come to a common position about when we are willing to go to the next steps and to send not just arms but troops to the aid and defense of Ukraine,” Coons said. “If the answer is never, then we are inviting another level of escalation and brutality by Putin. But so far, that is the answer of a majority in Congress and this administration.”

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Well, what a darn minute there. Sen. Coons is a nut, that’s for starters. We are not going to send US troops to Ukraine. At least not till me and mine have the chance to move to Iceland or someplace out of harm’s way. Sending weapons is one thing. Sending troops is something else. At least it should be up to Congress and not whomever is speaking for Joe Biden at the moment.