What the responses to Carlson's questions exposed is the deep divisions within the Republican Party as to how the United States should respond to the war in Ukraine.
Underlying the differing views is the unpleasant fact that there are no good options for U.S. policy in Ukraine.
If we continue to supply Ukraine with just enough military support to survive, the war will continue as a bloody stalemate resulting in tragic consequences in terms of loss of life on both sides and tremendous suffering imposed on the people of Ukraine.
If we up our military support through supplying Ukraine with more substantial weapons including long-range missiles, upgraded air defenses, and providing F-16s, we will push Russia into possibly escalating the war on their own terms which could include a full-scale mobilization of their population, spreading the war to other countries, including members of NATO and in the most alarming case resort to the use of some kind of nuclear weapons.
Russia invaded Georgia, Crimea, and Eastern Ukraine and the western nations did little more than Trump's agreement to supply Ukraine with Javelin anti-tank missiles, something the Obama administration refused to do.
The military support that Ukraine has received from NATO is very much motivated by a fear that if Russia easily conquers Ukraine, it will not stop with Ukraine.
A far better description is that Biden has mostly been blundering along, promoting a stalemate so as to avoid either the Russian conquest of Ukraine or a vastly expanded war that could have disastrous consequences for the whole world.
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