Whipping up anti-Russian hysteria, 79-year-old President Joe Biden boasted yesterday about his Zoom meeting with European allies over the Ukraine crisis, largely manufactured by the United States. Biden actually thinks that the European Union, that buys 40% of its energy from the Russian Federation, wants to get into a shooting war or participate in crippling economic sanctions over a fantasy that 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin is about invade Ukraine. There’s zero evidence that Putin has any such intention, other than his build up of 100,000 troops inside Russian near the Ukrainian border. When Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014, it was only after a Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup that toppled the duly elected, Kremlin-backed government on Viktor Yanukovych. No Western government or news outlet tells the truth of what happened in 2014.
Unlike 2014, there zero reason today for Putin to annex more Ukrainian territory, other that giving him a buffer zone in the East in what’s known a Donbass, hosting the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. But even a buffer zone rationale isn’t enough of a reason for Putin to breach more Ukrainian territory. He accomplished his goal in 2014 of protecting his Sevastopol naval base in Crimea. Today, the only rationale for taking over Eastern Ukraine would be to stop U.S. and NATO encroachment near the Russia border. When it comes to fake news, there’s no evidence that Putin is ready to invade Ukraine as Biden stated at last week’s press conference. When it comes to exaggerating the danger of a Russian invasion, Biden and the fake news has done a good job of hyping Ukraine. When it comes the EU or NATO, no one wants to get into a shooting or economic war with the Russian Federation.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov tried to set the record straight that it’s the U.S. and NATO that are creating the Ukraine crisis. Peskov took notice yesterday when Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said 8,500 U.S. troops have to put on “high alert” for possible deployment to Eastern Europe. Kirby made clear that no deployment order has been given, making it look like the White House is engaged in “gunboat diplomacy” with Moscow. Peskov said that Putin will confer with French President Emmanuel Macron to further the diplomatic process but, more importantly, serve notice that EU members do not subscribe to Biden’s belligerent actions. Biden boasted how happy he was with yesterday’s Zoom meeting, thinking that his European partners are on the same page. No one is on the same page about pushing the European continent into a military confrontation with the Russian Federation.
Biden and his friends in the fake press have manufactured an imminent risk to a new Russian invasion in Ukraine. Much of the propaganda and disinformation comes from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who’s been lobbying since taking office in 2019 for NATO membership. Zelensky knows that seeking NATO membership antagonizes Putin, yet routinely bugs NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Zelensky knows it’s against NATO policy to approve membership of an applicant currently involved in armed conflict. Zelensky claims that since 2014 14,000 Ukrainians have lost their lives in armed conflict with Russian separatists, backed by the Kremlin, in the Donetsk and Luhansk Donbass region. Zelensky tells Biden that Putin has interfered with Russian-speaking populations in Eastern Ukraine. Zelensky doesn’t admit that pro-Russian groups want no part of the Kiev government.
Peskov is right when he talks of Western “hysteria” going on in Ukraine, spread largely by Zelinsky and his Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, fueling the extreme anti-Russian antipathy that’s making diplomacy impossible. Putin has made clear that Russia has nowhere to go on its Western border with Ukraine, allowing the U.S. and NATO to turn Ukraine into an armed camp. Putin has asked that the U.S. and NATO stop supplying Ukraine with lethal weapons, based on Kiev’s propaganda that Moscow prepares for an invasion. Peskov sees Ukrainian propaganda as demonizing Moscow, promoting fake intel that Putin has prepared to invade. Macron’s meeting with Putin is designed to get a reality-check from the disinformation spread by various sources all designed to discredit the Russian Federation. Peskov wants the U.S. and NATO to stop spreading lies about the Kremlin.
Russia’s 72-year-old Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, isn’t fooled for one second about the propaganda and disinformation coming from Kiev. Zelensky has practically stood on his head to get the U.S. and NATO to fight Ukraine’s battles with the Russian Federation. Ukraine must accept that when they signed onto a CIA-backed coup Feb. 22, 2014 that toppled the Kremlin-backed government, there were consequences. No Western power or media source has admitted that toppling the Yanukovych government had consequences for the Kiev government. Cutting through the propaganda, it’s time to give diplomacy a chance, without interference from Kiev’s political agenda. Putin has stated emphatically he has no intent of invading Ukraine. Why that’s not accepted in Kiev or Washington is anyone’s guess. Macron has it right meeting with Putin to hear both sides of the story.
