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Biden’s Private Ukraine Deadline

The D.C. foreign policy establishment is growing restless as the Biden White House resists calls to articulate a more specific strategy if Ukraine fails to make significant gains by the fall.

It turns out that Washington’s foreign policy set has grown increasingly frustrated with the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy.
Washington’s foreign policy set has grown increasingly frustrated with the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Julia Ioffe
March 28, 2023

Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the White House has held regular calls with prominent people in the Washington foreign policy establishment, trying to keep the heads of think tanks and prominent experts apprised of what the administration is thinking and planning in countering Moscow. The goal of the regular calls has been to inform, persuade, and shape the analysis produced by this town’s foreign policy elite.