Tone deaf to the concept of linkage, 78-year-old President Joe Biden and his 58-year-old Secretary of State have pushed Ukraine into a new crisis in the restive Donbass region of Southeastern Ukraine near the Russian border. Biden and Blinken surely knew that when they sanctioned Russia for it’s treatment of 44-year-old dissident Alexi Navalny, it would create problems for Ukraine in the Russian speaking territories AKA the Peoples Republic of Donetsk where Uranian and Russian troops have been battling since before Russian President Vladimir Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014. Putin’s mindful of Russian enclaves in the wreckage of the former Soviet Union, where populations now identified as Ukrainian actually hade loyalty to the Kremlin. Biden and Blinken decimated any attempt at diplomacy with the Russian Federation, slapping Kremlin officials with new sanctions March 2.
What were Biden and Blinken thinking when they allowed Russian internal affairs to damage U.S. national security, and now, Ukrainian sovereignty? Sanctioning the Russian Federation over a known Trotskyite who has plotted to overthrow the Russian government makes it look like the U.S. and European Union want Putin out. But knowing the chickens come home to roost with more skirmishes on the Urkaine-Russian border. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Ukrainian forces have escalated the shelling around Russian enclaves in Southwest Ukraine. Peskov said Ukraine breached the fragile ceasefire agreement. “We also hope all our partners . . . will pay attention to the growing tension on the contact line and will use their influence to prevent this escalation from crossing a dangerous line,” Peskov said, asking France and Germany to help restrain Ukrainian forces from starting another war.
Since 2014 over 14,000 civilians have died in hostilities between Ukrainians troop and pro-Russian forces seeking independence from Kievy. When a CIA-backed Feb. 22, 2014 coup toppled the Kremlin backed government of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Putin sat helplessly by hosting the Sochi Winter Games. Once the Games ended Feb. 23, it took Putin one week to invade Crimea and reclaim the territory from Ukraine. If Biden and Blinken really wanted peace in Ukraine, why would they sanction Putin over Navalny, a know revolutionary who gaslights the West to think he leads a pro-democracy movement. Navalny once called Chechens “cockroaches,” saying the situation with Chechens can only be resolved with a “psistol.” Amnesty International felt so strongly about Navalny’s past racist comments, that they revoked his “prisoner of conscience” status.
Biden and Blinken’s blunder sending U.S.-Russian relations to Cold Ward lows shows he’s no fit for the job of commander-in-chief. Biden’s old ties with Ukraine through his 50-year-old son Hunter makes it difficult for him to manage any decisions without a conflict of interest. Joe landed Hunter a cushy job at a corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, making him millions of dollars. When it comes to new tensions on the Ukraine-Russian border, Biden has no leverage with the Kremlin because he’s imposed new sanctions. Putin knows exactly how far to push an escalation into hostilities with Ukrainian officials. People’s Republic of Donetsk authorized its Russian-backed forces to respond to Ukrainian shelling, warning of a dangerous escalation. Ukraine’s 41-year-old President Zolodymr Zelensky signaled that Ukrainian forces would fire back at Russian-backed shelling.
Loenid Kravcuk, firs president of Ukraine and head of the country delegation to the tri-lateral contact group with Russia and the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe [OSCE] would return fire on Russian-backed forces. Kravchuk said Ukrainian forces would respond to Russia troops “symmetrically,” firing back when provoked. If Zelensky pushed too hard firing on Russian or Russian-backed troops, Putin could seize the Donbass region or Donetsk for the Russian Federation. If that happened, what would Biden and Blinken do then? We know what Biden and his boss former President Barack Obama did March 1, 2014 when Putin seized Crimea. Obama and Biden did nothing militarily to reclaim Ukrainian territory. Ukraine, under 55-year-old former Ukrainian Petro Poroshenki, talked tough but did nothing to reclaim lost territory seized by Putin annexing the Crimean Peninsula.
Biden and Blinken burnt their bridges with Putin, sanctioning the Kremlin after Navalny’s sentencing for two-and-a-half years in a Russian penal colony. Biden and Blinken were willing to toss out years of hard-fought diplomacy during the Trump administration. When Obama and Biden left office Jan. 20, 2017, U.S.-Russian relations were at the lowest point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Trump did everything possible to restore good relations with Russia. Congress accused Trump and his inner circle, including 62-year-old Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, of colluding with the Kremlin, when all they did was try to improve U.S.-Russian relations. If Biden wanted to get along with Russia, he would have not sanctioned the Kremlin over Trotskyite Alexi Navalny. Navalny’s got his own agenda and network of revolutionaries seeking to overthrow Putin’s 20-year reign of power.
