Watching a complicit U.S. media egg on 78-year-old President Joe Biden closer to war with Russia, Biden spoke for one-hour with 43-year-old former comedian Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky about Russian military buildup in Eastern Ukraine. Pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk want no part of Zelensky’s pro-Western KIev government. When Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea March 1, 2014, it was after a CIA-backed coup toppled the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych Feb. 22, 2014. Putin was hosting the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics when Yanukovych was driven from Kiev. Since Putin annexed Crimea to protect his naval base in Sevastopol, Western governments have pressed Putin to return Crimea to Ukraine. When it comes to the Peoples Republic of Donetsk, nothing would make them happier that returning to Mother Russia.
At the time Putin annexed Crime, former President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden sat back and watched. They talked about the vast power of NATO military support but did nothing to aid Ukraine. Obama’s appeasement policy was inherited from former President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney, despite all their bravado in Iraq, watched Putin annex Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkazia Aug. 1-8, 2008, both Russian speaking provinces. Bush set the precedent and Obama followed suit when Putin made his next move, this time returning Crimea back to Russia. “President Biden affirmed the United States unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity in the face of Russia’s ongoing aggression in the Donbass and Crimea,” said a White House statement. Biden’s singing a different tune now then back in 2014.
Since taking office, Biden has slammed Putin and the Russian Federation for meddling in U.S. presidential election in 2016 and 20210, hacking U.S. computer programs and the Kremlin’s treatment of 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny. After promising a new era of diplomacy Feb. 5, then proceeded to call Putin as “soulless killer” March 16, slapping the Russian Federation with new sanctions March 2. Relations with Russia under Biden’s first 70 days are a rock bottom, now publicly vowing to defend Ukraine in the event of a Russian invasion. “We discussed the situation in Donbass in detail. President Biden assured me that Ukraine will never be left alone against Russia aggression,” said Zelensky in a video statement. If Zelensky’s right, the U.S. could be headed quickly for a shooting war with Russia, something dreaded since the end of WW II.
Zelensky’s wasn’t president when Putin annexed Crimea, with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko begging for U.S. and NATO help, but getting nothing. Now Zelensky thinks that the 78-year-old president is ready to commit troops to Ukraine because he can’t work out his problems with the Russian Federation. Biden requires urgent Congressional oversight because he’s getting dangerously close only 70 days into his presidency of getting the U.S. into the unthinkable: A war with the Russian Federation. Biden’s kidding himself thinking that NATO or the European Union [EU] would back any confrontation in Donbass with the Russian Federation. While the EU talks a good game, the last thing they want to do is defend Ukraine from a Russian invasion. Biden’s been pushing things to the brink since he took office, now getting Putin’s attention.
Responding quickly to Biden’s provocation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said any deployment of NATO forces in the Donbass region would destabilize the situation. Peskov said that the “contact line” between Ukrainian and Russian forces was “frightening,” saying any conflict in the region would destroy Ukraine. If that’s not a warning to Biden, then nothing is He pushed things so far calling Putin as “soulless killer” March 16, that both sides are, as Pesco says, frightening close to multiple provocations. Visiting Ukraine today, U.S. Defense Secretary Gen. Lloyd Austin said with Ukraine’s Defense Minister Andri Taran “condemned recent escalations of Russian aggressive and provocative actions in eastern Ukraine,” the Pentagon said. U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken, who pushed for sanctions with the EU against the Kremlin, blamed Russia for escalation in the Donbass region.
Playing a dangerous game of chicken with the U.S. military and NATO, Biden’s in no position to fight Ukraine’s battles with the Russian Federation. If pro-Russian separatists want to be part of the Russian Federation, Zelensky shouldn’t push the U.S. or NATO into a shooting war with Russia. Whatever happened in Georgia in 2008 or Crimea in 2014, there’s no way to un-ring the bell, without pushing things into a military confrontation. Zelensky needs to figure out why Russian-speaking enclaves in Donbass think they’ve been sold out by Kiev. It’s not Putin’s fault that residents of the former Soviet satellite feel alienated or abandoned by Kiev. “We stand shoulder to shoulder when it comes to preservation of our democracies,” Zelensky wrote on Twitter after his call with Biden. Biden needs to wake up before it’s too late that no U.S. or NATO soldier should fight Ukraine’s battles.
