{"id":6831,"date":"2023-03-04T05:49:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2023-03-04T05:50:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:50:00","slug":"sell-the-ukraine-war-joe-persuading-the-public-is-key-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=6831","title":{"rendered":"Sell the Ukraine war, Joe: Persuading the public is key to victory<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin\u2019s victory in this war would show that naked aggression works, spelling disaster for the world order and thus for the civilized world, the United States included: Russia would soon move on other nations Putin thinks he owns; China and Iran would turn more aggressive, and US allies more fearful and cautious.
\nThe obvious dangers are why Biden has backed Kyiv as hard as he has.
\nBut he\u2019s failed to make the case to the America public, instead putting all the bully-pulpit powers of the presidency into selling his domestic agenda and other purely partisan efforts.
\nAs a result, Ukraine may turn out to be yet another of his spectacular failures.
\nAn AP-NORC poll found support for a \u201cmajor\u201d US role in the war fell from 32% last year to just 26% in January. Only 48% of Americans still back sending US weapons, down from 60%.
\nThose who think we\u2019ve already done too much have swelled from 7% a year ago to 26% percent last month, per Pew. A Fox News survey showed 46% want to slap a time limit on any aid.
\nMeanwhile, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vows not to write Kyiv a \u201cblank check,\u201d and a small fringe of GOP lawmakers want to end all aid to Ukraine now.
\nThe group is pushing a non-binding \u201cUkraine Fatigue\u201d resolution.
\nNote the cynical name: They (rationally) expect that, as the war drags on, the public will tire and lose sight of the stakes.
\n\u201cI feel badly for [Ukraine], but I feel like we need to first take care of priorities here at home,\u201d says Joe Hernandez of Rocklin, Calif., per AP.
\nThat sentiment is bound to grow.
\nYet US support is key to Ukraine\u2019s ability to resist the Russian onslaught.
\nAnd if Kyiv falls, Moscow will soon enough move on to fresh targets, even NATO members; Beijing will up its bullying of its neighbors and look harder at invading Taiwan.
\nIran and other rogue nations will turn more aggressive, too. Powers like Turkey will eye their own \u201cspecial military operations.\u201d
\nBiden should be screaming from the rooftops every day to ensure support.
\nHis surprise visit to Kyiv on the invasion\u2019s anniversary was great for Ukraine\u2019s morale, but did nothing for American opinion.
\nNo: His speeches focus on bragging about his economic \u201cachievements\u201d and celebrating idiocy like his drive to forgive college loans for mostly affluent Americans.
\nBiden already made one huge mistake in advance of the war, by trying to deter Putin only with loud talk of sanctions rather than actually rushing arms to Ukraine.
\nHe\u2019s made more errors by letting Putin\u2019s nuclear bluffs intimidate him out of sending Kyiv more powerful weapons (only to time and again see the light months later).
\nBiden knows the stakes are high: \u201cThe cost of walking away could be considerably higher than the cost of helping,\u201d he said recently.
\nBut the cost of not rallying the nation behind support for Ukraine \u2014 yes, even at the expense of his partisan domestic agenda \u2014 is at least as high.
\nHonor your oath of office, sir, and put the national interest ahead of your partisan ones.<\/p>\n

Nypost<\/p>\n

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Vladimir Putin\u2019s victory in this war would show that naked aggression works, spelling disaster for the world order and thus for the civilized world, the United States included: Russia would soon move on other nations Putin thinks he owns; China and Iran would turn more aggressive, and US allies more fearful and cautious. The obvious dangers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[2715,1385,1935],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","tag-victory","tag-war","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6833,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}