Today in the Miller Center’s weekly Ukraine “War Room” discussion, we talked about how the Biden administration might pivot from painting Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as autocracy versus democracy. Instead, the U.S. could portray the war as the illegal violation of a sovereign nation’s territory. From the perspective of effective foreign policy and international law norms, this suggestion makes good sense. It also reflects the diminution of American democracy on the world stage. Just this week alone, I have fielded questions about the January 6th Committee’s revelations and the Supreme Court’s recent decisions from England, Australia, Canada, and the Middle East. It seems obvious that when a male Middle Eastern journalist is concerned about the reduction of women’s rights in the United States, America has reached a regrettable point of regression.
Barbara Perry
