Ukraine’s freedom is the price of Europe’s peace
by Archbishop Cranmer:
“Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him a right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbours?” asked President Biden yesterday, with all the misplaced pauses and stammers of an amateur actor with stage fright. There was also some egregious scripting or the President’s careless misreading of the tense of territorial belonging: surely this occupied territory still belongs to his neighbours, or does ‘belonged’ signal an acceptable degree of invasion?
The curious thing is that President Biden answered his own question only a few weeks ago, because it was he who gave President Putin a degree of right to invade Ukraine, even if not quite a divine right in the Lord’s name: “It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, etcetera,” he told the world’s media in a press conference on 19th January.
There was no press conference yesterday; no probing questions demanding spontaneous answers from the slightly sweaty President. He turned his back on the cameras after robotically reciting his script, and was ushered out so he could misspeak no more. If, indeed, allowing Putin a ‘minor incursion’ was an extempore gaffe and not an unscheduled disclosure of US foreign policy.
“Who in the Lord’s name does Putin think gives him a right to declare new so-called countries on territory that belonged to his neighbours?”
The rest of Europe does, and the United States of America does.
The free world does.
It is the price of peace.
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