This is CBS Eye in the World of John Bats with Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution,

writing an American greatness about Ukraine.

The challenge of Ukraine is not just the immediate funding matter in Congress.

It is also the scale of this, a surrogate war, NATO led by the United States, and the invasion

in 22 has left Europe without adequate resources for the third winter of war, doubts about

its future at all because of these contests that NATO is reawakened, and questions about

who's in charge, who's responsible for this, certainly Russia is, but then Victor, in

your new column in American greatness, you point to the moment in 2014, the little green

men on Crimea.

How was the Biden Obama administration, Obama Biden administration?

Is that a telling moment for what we now see from the president?

He was part of the decision making, not to kick back.

Yeah, I think it is because Biden, the president is trying to persuade us that the recovery

of Crimea and the borderlands with Russia are essential to the Ukrainian war effort.

Okay, that's understandable, but what he doesn't tell us is that certainly was not the

policy of the administration in which he served as vice president because he and Obama specifically

didn't mention it once those lands were retaken by Russia.

It wasn't the policy of the next administration, Donald Trump.

He didn't run on, nor did he, as president advocate for the return of Crimea to Ukraine to

take one example.

It wasn't the policy of Joe Biden from his inauguration to February 24th, 2022, to get

back.

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