How should the aid be paced, given the changing nature of the war and the limits on getting artillery shells into a long supply chain that stretched from the Army Ammunition Plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania—just three miles from Biden’s childhood home—to the border towns of Poland and then into Ukraine? How much risk were they willing to take when it came to taunting Vladimir Putin? How much blame—and domestic public pressure—were they willing to take for refusing Zelensky’s requests? None of these were easy to answer in the fog of a fast-moving war. But over time, a strategy emerged that some
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