About a week after the Hamas attack on Israel, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy offered to go to Israel, but the Israelis turned him down.
Mr. Zelenskyy’s intention was to regain some media attention to Ukraine, which had been demoted to about 10th place behind the Israel-Hamas war and Britney Spears’ upcoming memoir. Mr. Zelenskyy fears that the competition for attention will evolve into a competition for U.S. aid.
President Biden has, so far, done well in helping Israel defend itself. U.S. aircraft have been delivering aid to Israel since about 48 hours after the war began. Two U.S. carrier battle groups are now close to Israel, and 2,000 troops have been alerted for possible deployment to Israel. This may be sufficient to deter Iran from attacking Israel with its other proxy, the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon, but only the Iranians know whether it will be.
In less than two months, that unity has smashed against several rocks, including House Republicans refusing further aid in the current continuing resolution, Britain’s mistake in saying it would send British troops to Ukraine on a training mission, Germany’s slowdown of shipments of munitions and Poland’s halting the shipment of its arms to Ukraine.
On Sept. 21, soon before its elections, the Polish government announced that it wouldn’t send any new Polish arms to Ukraine and was focusing on replenishing its own munitions stocks. It also banned new grain shipments from Ukraine. On Sept. 30, the United Kingdom’s new defense minister, Grant Shapps, said that the U.K. might send troops into Ukraine to train Ukrainians on British arms. About a day later, Dmitri Medvedev, who is often Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mouthpiece, said that any of those troops would be legitimate targets for Russian forces. That quickly caused U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to deny that any U.K. troops would enter Ukraine.
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