Committed to standing with Ukraine, Biden will have to make his case to the American people and show them that doing so is vital to the homeland, experts say.
Kimmage sees Biden's visit to Kyiv as a sign that he has no plans to change course. If anything, the president is bolstering his promises to Ukraine. Monday's visit has made Biden more"deeply" and"personally" involved in the war than ever before—a war where it's"very difficult to say what victory will look like."
Now, Gvosdev said, the Biden administration will need to show how focusing on Ukraine still fits within defense officials'"strategic assessments about China as the pacing challenge" and the Indo-Pacific region emerging as a"global center of gravity." "There's no doubt that when the history of the Biden presidency is written, there are going to be chapters—not just one—but chapters about this conflict and how the administration responded," said Max Bergmann, a former senior adviser in the State Department and now director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, toldThere is also a"looming Catch-22" waiting for Biden and additional American spending for Ukraine, according to Toft.
If Ukrainians successfully defeat the Russians, who greatly outnumber them, Biden may be asked why Ukraine needed American help to begin with. But, if the U.S. sends advanced weapons systems only for Ukraine to still lose, Biden will be questioned on why those systems were delivered only to fall into Russia's hands.
"At this point, it's hard to say what's the greater threat to Biden's rightly preferred policy of 'we will not falter, we will not tire," Toft said.
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