Only days before the U.S. enters high level diplomatic talks next week with the Russian Federation, 59-yea-old Secretary of State Antony Binken, rejected 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin to provide the Russian Federation legal guarantees that NATO will not NATO to encroach on Ukrainian territory or offer membership to the once Soviet Satellite. President Joe Biden, 79. lets Blinkin do the talking, something that’s pushed Putin to threatening breaking off diplomatic ties to the U.S. Nothing could be more catastrophic to U.S. foreign policy, watching Putin driven in China’s global hegemony strategy, where there are little deterrents left to stop a U.S. foreign policy pushing the world closer to the brink. Blinken has thrown down the gaunlet setting up a possible military confrontation with Moscow.
Biden and Blinken claim the have they European Union [EU] behind them. But no one in the EU wants to back the insanity of Biden’s antagonistic approach to Russia. When Russia invaded Crimea March 1, 2014, the U.S., EU and NATO refused to acknowledge that a CIA-backed coup toppled the duly elected government of former Kemlin-backed President Viktor Yanyukovych Feb. 22, 2014. All the U.S., EU and NATO have done over the last seven years is blame Putin, knowing that he hosted the Socihi Winter Olympics when a carefully-timed CIA-backed coup toppled the Kremlin-based government in Kiev. For the past seven years, Ukraine has worked with the U.S., EU and NATO to discredit the Russian Federation, rather that give the true picture of what happened Feb. 22, 2022.
Blinken threatened the Russian Federation with extreme sanctions if Putin moves ahead with plans to annex the Donbass region of Easter Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists want no part of the Kiev government. ‘We’re prepared to respond forcefully to further Russian aggression, but a diplomatic solution is still possible if a preferable in Russia,” chooses Blinken said. Threatening Putin before the start of diplomatic talks violates every known principle of diplomacy, pushing Putin’s back to the wall. Putin doesn’t want war with the West but he also doesn’t want to surrender Ukraine to the U.S. and NATO. Biden and Blinken call Putin the aggressor in Ukraine but neither acknowledge how the crisis started in 2014. Putin wants the U.S., EU and NATO to operate in good faith in Ukraine.
Biden and Blinken have never made a case for Ukraine, especially when the impoverished, war-torn country has no national security significance to the U.S. No on in U.S., EU or NATO have any idea why Biden has pushed things to the brink, all because 43-year-old Ukrainian president Voldodymyr Zelelesky has practically begged NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltengerg for NATO membership. Putin has said repeatedly that would cross a “red line” for Moscow. “We will not compromise on our core principles, including the right for every nation to decide its own path, including what kind of security arrangements it wants to be a part of,” Stoltenberg, rebuffing Putin before diplomatic talks begin next week. Pushing Putin to the brink before talks start next week doesn’t bode will for future negotiations. Putin wants no part of NATO in the Ukrainian territory.
Putin knows that Biden, Blinken and Stoltenberg are bluffing when it comes a coordinated U.S.-NATO response to a Russian invasion. Biden has already said Dec. 8, that he has no plans to send U.S. troops into Ukraine for whatever reason. Yet Zelensky continues to push NATO for membership, largely because they’d like Ukraine to retake Crimea with NATO help. Why Biden and NATO have chosen to bluff their way o of Ukraine is anyone’s guess. Biden knows that creating a war in Ukraine would tank the U.S. and world economy, knowing that no one in the EU or NATO want any kind of military confrontation with Ukraine. If Zelensky wishes to fix his problematic relationship with Moscow, he needs to hold direct talks with Moscow, not use the U.S. and NATO to fight his battles. Biden and NATO knows that Putin hold all the cards in Ukraine, prompting more diplomacy.
Before Biden pushed the world to the brink, he needs to urgently rethink what possible national security significance the U.S. has in Ukraine. U.S. needs Russia for global diplomacy, not Ukraine that offers the U.S. nothing. Putin wants to see a good faith effort by Biden and Stoltenberg to stop supplying Ukraine with offensive and defensive weapons. Moscow has no buffer left in Ukraine and must draw the line against at U.S. and NATO advance. Biden, the EU and NATO must figure out what if anything the U.S. hopes to get out of Ukraine, since Russia is a far more important strategic partner. Threatening Putin with more sanctions only pushes Putin to do something he doesn’t want to do. Looking at the big picture, there’s no question that Moscow is more important to the U.S. and NATO than Ukraine.
