By Duggan Flanakin ~

The Biden Administration is proving to be the willing lackey of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

At his January 19 press conference, Biden, perhaps aware that Putin’s forces have already surrounded Ukraine, acknowledged that Russia is very likely to undertake a “minor incursion” into the country where his son once held a powerful position in a major energy company.

Given the embarrassment that was the Afghanistan withdrawal, no one is taking seriously Biden’s belated promise that he would hold Putin accountable by imposing sanctions and increasing U.S. troop levels in Poland – or whatever.

This is, after all, the same Tough Joe Biden who sanctimoniously canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, suspended drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and lifted sanctions against Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

But is the Ukraine flap really the Russian gambit of highest concern? Or should Americans (and Canadians and maybe…