Pushing Russian President Vladimir Putin to a war footing, 78-year-old President Joe Biden has driven U.S.-Russian relations to the lowest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, maybe worse. Addressing the Russian Federation on the annual state-of-the-nation address, Putin said any breach by the U.S., European Union [EU] or NATO would be met with a “quick and tough” response. Putin reacted to Biden’s new sanctions April 16 over unproven allegations that Russian meddled in the 2020 election and hacked SolarWinds network management program. Whatever the reason for Biden’s belligerent approach, he’s now pushed Putin to issue a stern warning to the U.S., EU and NATO not to interfere with the Russian Federation’s policy with Ukraine. Biden, together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanel Macron demanded Putin pull back troops from Ukraine.
Since taking office Jan. 20, Biden has done everything possible to alienate Putin, including calling him a “soulless killer” March 16. “I hope that no one dares to cross the red line in respect to Russia, and we will determine where it is in each specific case,” Putin said in his nationwide speech. “Those who organize any provocations threatening out core security interests will regret their deeds more than they regretted anything for a long time,” Putin said. Putin was addressing his warning to Biden who’s been especially provocative in organizing sanctions with the EU against the Kremlin. Putin rejected Western concerns about the Russian troop build up on the Russian side of the border to Ukraine’s Donbass region. Putin put Ukraine on notice not to seize Russian-speaking territories currently operating independent from President Zolodymyr Zelensky’s Kiev government.
Biden has solicited the EU to join a coalition against Putin’s military build up near the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine. “We really don’t want to burn the bridges.” Putin said. “But if some mistake our good intentions for indifference or weakness and intends to burn or even blow up those bridges themselves. Russia response will be asymmetrical, quick and tough,” putting the West on notice to stay in their lane. Biden and his 58-year-old Secretary of State Tony Blinken have been slamming Putin for his treatment of 44-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny, demanding he be released from prison. Biden and Blinken have accused the U.S. of meddling in U.S. affairs. If telling Putin to release Navalny, a known revolutionary, isn’t meddling in the internal affairs of a sovereign state, then what is? Biden and Blinken’s support of Navalny is about getting rid of Putin.
Navalny, who was sentenced March 2 to two-year-eight-months in a Russian penal colony, gets daily press briefings from his handlers like his chief-of-staff Leonid Volkov, feeding the media a pack of lies about his medical condition designed to discredit Putin. Daily reports from U.S. and foreign news outlets detail Navalny’s medical condition, from various doctors attached to his clandestine organization designed to exaggerate Navalny’s deteriorating medical condition. Nowhere does the media report that Navalny’s deteriorated state was due to his foolish hunger strike designed pressure Putin and Kremlin to let him out of prison. Biden falls right into the trap saying if Navalny dies, there will be draconic consequences to the Russian Federation, including more sanctions or worse. Biden has zero leverage over Putin, especially in Ukraine’s Donbass area.
Putin lambasted the U.S. for its “unlawful, politically motivated economic sanctions and crude attempts to enforce its will on others,” saying that Russia has shown restraint under the war-like conditions Biden has imposed. Putin called Biden’s actions “openly boorish,” kicking out 10 Russian diplomats from Washington. Three days after Biden called Putin a “soulless killer” March 16, he challenged Biden to a live Internet debate to air various differences. Biden didn’t respond to the challenge but asked Putin April 13for a summit, all in response to Putin’s massive military build up near the Ukrainian border. Biden’s playing a dangerous game of chicken with Putin, bound to lose because Putin, not Biden, has the military resources to prevail in Ukraine and elsewhere. “The practice of organizing coups and planning political assassinations of top officials goes over the top and crosses all boundarie,” Putin said.
Biden’s one small step away from igniting a war with the Russian federation, pretending he has the backing of the EU and NATO. No one in the EU or NATO want a confrontation with the Russian Federation. EU officials know they buy 40% of natural gas and 30% of petroleum from the Russia Federation. Germany has spent $11 billion on the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline supply natural gas from Russia to Germany. Biden was Vice President under former President Barack Obama when Putin responded to a Feb. 22, 2014 CIIA-backed coup that toppled the Kremlin-backed government of Vitkor Yanukovych. Obama, Biden, the EU and NATO did nothing March 1 when Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula. Any wrong move by the U.S. or NATO would trigger Putin to send the Russian army to annex Russian-speaking, separatist parts of eastern Ukraine.
