The irascible Pat Buchanan played the role of the “Dutch uncle” to President Biden on Dec. 7, providing him with a translation of Vladimir Putin’s message in an op-ed: “Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with ‘legal guarantees’ that Ukraine will never join NATO or become a base for weapons that can threaten Russia – or we will go in and guarantee it ourselves.” That is what Russian military exercises mean, says Buchanan in his column, “Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will.” [https://www.creators.com/read/pat-buchanan/12/21/putin-to-biden-finlandize-ukraine-or-we-will]
Buchanan also suggested people watch Putin’s lips: “The threat on our western borders is … rising, as we have said multiple times. … In our dialogue with the United States and its allies, we will insist on developing concrete agreements prohibiting any further eastward expansion of NATO and the placement there of weapons systems in the immediate vicinity of Russian territory.”
