Biden administration officials, led by 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 45-year-old National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan keep pushing for war with the Russian Federation. Any suggestion of compromise with 69-year-old President Vladimir Putin is dismissed as rubbish, blaming Putin for naked aggression in Ukraine. President Joe Biden, 79, former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is itching for a confrontation with Putin, even if it means war on the European Continent. Only self-avowed Democrat socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) questions the White House strategy of not meeting Putin half-way. White House officials dismiss Putin as a propagandist, like he fabricating the amount of arms supplied to Ukraine by the U.S. and NATO. How ironic that Democrats and Republicans agree on war with the Russian Federation.
In a weird interview Feb. 10 with NBC’s Lester Holt, Biden said he would not put boots on the ground in Ukraine because a shooting war with Russia would start WW III. But from every word coming from the White House, it’s a belligerent, confrontational tone. French President Emmanuel Macron, 44, spent five hours at the Kremlin helping defuse the Ukraine crisis, only to watch the White House push for war. While the White House says it wants Putin to stand down, their approach is “gunboat diplomacy,” where only threats and intimidation are used to resolve the crisis. Biden has warned the world for a month about an “imminent” Russian invasion, only to get the murky date pushed backed into an unknown date. No Sullivan claims that Putin will invade “any day now,” perhaps before the Beijing Winter Olympics ends. Sullivan’s forecasts so far have all turned out to be rubbish.
Buy pushing the “imminent” invasion narrative, the White House thinks that it deters Putin from taking action. Reporting Feb. 7, the New York Times admitted in its analysis that the stalemate could go on for months contradicting Sullivan’s predictions. “We encourage all American citizens who remain in Ukraine to depart immediately,” Sullivan said at a briefing today. “We want to be crystal clear on his point: Any American in Ukraine should leave as soon as possible, and in any event in the next 24 to 48 hours,” Pushing back on White House panic, Ukraine’s 43-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky, who gets the same intel as Sullivan, since most of his intel comes from the CIA, pushed back against White House claims of an “imminent invasion.” Zelensky told Ukraine citizens and all foreigners not to panic, he sees no signs of a Russian invasion now or in the future.
So what’s happening with the disconnect between the White House and Zelensky on the inevitability of a Russian invasion. Putin reassured Macron at his Feb. 7 face-to-face meeting that there’s no plan of any Ukraine invasion. When it comes to the U.S. press reporting on the invasion, they parrot back leaked information from the White House always using confidential sources. So the public has no clue what’s factual when it comes to anything imminent. Sullivan’s announcements are more for the Kremlin than any U.S. citizen in Ukraine, hoping to bluff Putin into removing his 100,000-plus troops near the Ukrainian border. Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt yesterday that he would not put troops into Ukraine but announced today an additional 3,000 U.S. troops sent to Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. So just as Putin asked that the U.S. and NATO scale back encroachment, Biden announces more troop deployments.
Sanders becomes in a sea of like-minded, neocon group-think on both sides of the aisle in Congress, the only rational voice asking war hawks to consider compromising or at least trying to see Putin’s side. Former President Donald Trump, who represented on Nov. 3 Election Day, nearly 50% of U.S. voters, opposes U.S. intervention in Ukraine, saying, like Sanders, the U.S. has no national security business in Ukraine. Yet if you listen to Biden, Blinken and Sullivan the Free World depends on the U.S. drawing a “red line” in Ukraine. If that’s the case, why has Biden said on two occasions, Dec. 8, 2021 and Jan. 25, that he would not put U.S. boots in Ukraine? If Biden is fighting for the survival of freedom, why preclude putting U.S. troops in Ukraine? What’s become obvious to many, other than war hawks in Congress, is that Biden doesn’t know what he’s doing in Ukraine, risking war in Europe.
White House officials do everything possible to provoke a Russian invasion in Ukraine. If Biden really wanted to defuse the situation, he’d do exactly what Macron did, sitt down with Putin and find areas of common ground and agreement. Sanders urged his Senate colleagues, especially Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to consider Putin’s concerns about NATO encroachment on the Russian Federation. “If a Russian attack on Ukraine proceeds, is likely to begin with an aerial bombing and missile attacks that could obviously kill civilians without regard for their nationality,” Sullivan told the press. Sullivan’s comments are so off-the-wall, so irresponsible, so reckless they must be called out. There’s zero intel, facts or evidence that Putin would seek topple Kiev. Only Russian-speaking separatist regions in the east would be in play, if at all.
