“Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, political scientist Ruslan Bortnik generally negatively assesses the tenure of the 46th US President Joe Biden, which will end on January 20. According to the expert, this period became a time of unjustified dreams and the failure of peace initiatives for Ukraine. Bortnik shared his thoughts in an exclusive comment to our publication. The political scientist believes that during Biden’s presidency mistakes and”, — write on: ua.news
Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, political scientist Ruslan Bortnik generally negatively assesses the tenure of the 46th US President Joe Biden, which will end on January 20. According to the expert, this period became a time of unjustified dreams and the failure of peace initiatives for Ukraine.
Bortnik shared his thoughts in an exclusive comment to our publication.
The political scientist believes that during Biden’s presidency, there were more mistakes and failures than achievements and victories. Strategic issues also remained unresolved.
“Biden’s era for Ukraine is an era of the failure of peace negotiations, the beginning of hostilities, and Ukraine’s unrealized dreams of membership in NATO, dreams of a strategic partnership with the United States. This is the inability to stop Russia. However, this is also the unprecedentedly broad support of America during the war, although this support was always too slow, not anticipatory, but reactionary to the events at the front.
No final strategic decisions have been made under Biden. The treaty on collective defense was not signed, Ukraine’s accession to NATO was not supported. The issues of a visa-free regime with the USA, a free trade zone, access to markets and everything that would make Ukraine a real strategic partner for the USA have not been resolved. The era of Biden is the time when it became clear: the USA is not going to give Ukraine to Russia, but it has not decided what to do with Ukraine in general. What place in the Western world is assigned to her,” Bortnik is confident.
The expert notes that the level of American support was, of course, unprecedented. And mainly thanks to the position of the USA, we were actively helped by the EU and other partners around the world. Thanks to this support, we survived as a state, and this can be said without appeal.
“However, Ukraine has not yet become part of the Western world. And until now, for some reason, Biden has not made a decision about the place of Ukraine on the geopolitical map. He leaves Ukraine in a situation of geopolitical uncertainty, and now Donald Trump will solve these problems,” Ruslan Bortnik summarized.
Earlier, we reported what was the key problem of Biden’s tenure for Ukraine from the point of view of political scientist Yevhen Magda.
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