The Ukrainian military largely relies on Russian and old East bloc weaponry. More advanced Western platforms help, but these often take time and training to put into action. While many Eastern European countries have already done their part to help, Ukraine needs more.
The United States succeeds most in its foreign policy when that policy is bipartisan. Iran and Venezuela policy has suffered because they became partisan footballs. Ties with Taiwan, on the other hand, grow stronger because of bipartisan consensus about the need to stand firm against Chinese aggression. The Eastern Mediterranean is another bipartisan success story. Rather than reverse former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s efforts to advance both diplomatic and military ties to Greece and Cyprus, his successor, Antony Blinken, has built upon them.
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Should President Joe Biden want to resupply Ukraine quickly, he should turn to Cyprus. A bipartisan legal framework already exists. In 2019, Sens. Bob Menendez and Marco Rubio introduced the Eastern Mediterranean Security and Energy Partnership Act “to fully support the trilateral partnership of Israel, Greece, and Cyprus through energy and defense cooperation initiatives.” The legislation reoriented U.S. policy toward a regional concert of democracies, set the stage for an end to the arms embargo on Cyprus, and forced the State Department to report on strategy, malign Russian influence in the region, and Turkish violations of Cypriot waters and Greek airspace.
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