Turning Ukraine into an armed U.S. and NATO camp, 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin requested that 79-year-old President Joe Biden stop supplying Ukraine with lethal weapons with which to potentially attack the Russian Federation. Biden told Putin to jump in a lake, basically ignoring Putin’s requests for binding security guarantees, stopping arms shipments to Ukraine and banning Ukraine from NATO membership. When Putin realized Biden would not talk, discuss or let alone negotiate any change to the U.S. posture, Putin decided to recognize separatist areas of Ukraine AKA The People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, both sitting on Ukraine’s eastern border. Let there be no mistake, Biden’s refusal to discus security arrangement prompted Putin to send the Russian army into Donbass. Biden’s response is a diplomatic and now sanctions war against the Russian Federation.
Putin told Biden before that any sanctions war with Russian Federation could result in a break off of U.S. diplomatic relations. Since taking office Jan. 20, 2021, Biden has implemented the most hostile U.S. relations toward Russia and China in U.S. history.. So, when Putin rolled his tanks into Doinbass, it should have come as no surprise to anyone. Biden’s Dec. 4, 2021 and Jan. 25 decision, for now, to not send troops into Ukraine gave Putin the green light to invade at a time of his choosing. Biden reiterated that if Putin threatens any NATO member, all bets would be off with for U.S. military intervention. Biden and his 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken have told Ukraine’s 43-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky that the “U.S. has your back.” Zelensky and his 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba questioned Biden’s sincerity, saying deeds speak louder than words.
Zelensky has antagonized Putin since taking office May 20, 2019, begging NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg for membership. Stoltenberg expressed sympathy for Zelensky’s request but no action has been taken on NATO membership. Since Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2018, Ukraine has sought NATO membership, largely because it’s wanted the U.S. and NATO to fight a war with Russia to retake the Crimean Peninsula. So far, Ukraine has not attacked Russian forces in Donbass or attempted to re-take Crimea. But should Ukraine attack Donbass or Crimea, all bets would be off for Putin to go further into Ukraine, maybe to Kiev. “There is no doubt that the sanctions introduced against us will hit global financial and energy markets . . .”. Russian Amb. Anatoly Antonov wrote on Facebook, warning that the U.S. will start to experience pain from sanctions.
Biden’s sanctions targeting Putin’s close Kremlin allies and oligarchs is an act of war against the Russian Federation. If Biden thinks that Ukraine is so important to U.S. national security, then why did he rule out sending troops to protect U.S. interests? Biden has turned Ukraine into a global crisis, getting the Western world to buy into his sanctions on the Russian government. Turkey’s 67-year-old President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a member of NATO, said publicly he disagreed with the U.S. and European Union’s sanctions against the Kremlin. Yet if you listen to Biden and Blinken, you’d think that Western civilization hangs in the balance because Putin moved the Russian army into two Russian enclaves in eastern Ukraine. “The United States will not be left out, with its ordinary citizens feeling the consequences of the price increase in full,” Anovov said, warning Biden of fallout from sanctions.
Trillions of dollars in U.S. wealth has already been lost from U.S. markets plunging under the weight of Biden’s economic war against the Russian Federation. Without making Ukraine into a global crisis, global financial markets would hardly react to Putin’s move in Donbass. When Putin invaded Crimea March 1, 2014, U.S. and global finanicial markets barely flinched. This time around, Wall Street perceives Biden going to war against the Russian Federation, now economically, but eventually with the U.S. military. Biden’s already making excuses of how average Americans need to sacrifice to preserve freedom. Talking about preserving freedom in Ukraine is off-the-wall. If Biden isn’t willing to commit U.S. troops to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty, why is willing to start an economic war with Russia? Biden’s responses to Putin’s latest move in Donbass makes absolutely no sense.
Biden’s economic war against the Russian Federation to defend Ukraine makes zero sense, unless he thinks Ukraine is of such vital national security significance to the U.S. that it’s worth the fight. Biden and his 50-year-old son Hunter had business dealings in Ukraine but the Black Sea country has no real national security significance to the U.S. If Biden’s willing to declare economic war against Putin and the Russian Federation, he’d better be prepare to commit U.S. troops. “Defending freedom will have costs for us as well, here at home. We need to be honest about that,” Biden said, referring to spiraling gas prices. When Biden talks about defending freedom, he’s not talking about the U.S. or any NATO members. He’s talking about Ukraine. Declaring economic war against the Russian Federation could very well lead to a military conflict. Biden seems very confused over whose freedom he’s defending.
