Visiting the 82nd airborne in Rzeszow, Poland, 79-year-old President Joe Biden heaped praise on U.S. troops for defending the Free World. Biden found a receptive audience once again calling 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal,” confusing the role played by the U.S. military. Biden acts like a war-time president and talks to the troops like they’re fighting a war. “The single most important thing that we can do from the outset is to keep democracies united in our opposition and our effort to curtail the devastation that is occurring in the hand of a man who I quite frankly think is a war criminal,” Biden said at a press conference with Polish President Andrzej Duda and United States Agency for International Development [USAI] chief Samantha Powers. Biden heaped praise on U.S. troops acting like they’re fighting the Ukraine War to preserve democracy in Europe.
Biden’s statements got more bizarre by the minute speaking to U.S. troops. “Thank you very, very much for all that you do. And it’s not hyperbole to suggest you’re the finest fighting force, not in the world—in the world. That’s not hyperbole,” Biden said, not realizing that it’s incoherent. “And you’re gonna see when you’re there, and some of you have been there . . “ Biden told the troops, raising new concerns that he’s seeking to put U.S. troops in Ukraine. Biden has said he has no intent of sending U.S. forces to Ukraine, despite telling the 82nd Airborne that they’ll find out the bravery and courage of Ukraine’s people when they get to Ukraine. No one in the media gets a chance to clarify Biden’s remarks because he takes so few press questions. “The president has been clear we are not sending U.S. troops to Ukraine and there is no change in that position,” said a White House spokesman.
Biden said nothing about Putin’s recent change of tactics, pivoting to defend the peoples republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, apparently ending the initial campaign of wreaking havoc all over the country. Biden’s statements to U.S. troops and press clearly reflect the fact that he’s running the Ukraine War out of the White House. If that’s true, then Putin’s war in Ukraine is really against the U.S. because Putin said he wouldn’t tolerate Ukraine as a U.S. puppet regime. Biden enters NATO meetings like he commanding the troops, actually confused the role played by the U.S. and NATO armed forces. Not a single European Union or NATO country has committed any troops to Ukraine, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to question U.S. and NATO sincerity about helping Ukraine. Zelensky knows the extent of U.S. and NATO weapons sent to Kiev.
Biden and Zelensky have some big choices now that Putin’s decided to pivot the Russian military to protecting Russia-speaking parts of Donbass in Eastern Ukraine. “What’s at stake, and not just in what’ve we’re doing here in Ukraine to try to help the Ukrainian people and keep the massacre from continuing, but beyond that, what’s at stake is . . . what are your kids and grandkids gonna look like in terms of their, their, their freedom,” Biden said, in another muddled message. If Biden wants to stop the slaughter of innocent Ukrainians, he’d work day-and-night on a ceasefire agreement and eventual peace deal. But Biden has done nothing but supply Ukraine more lethal weapons to battle the Russian Federation. If you listen to Zelensky, Ukraine will battle Putin to the last drop of blood, regardless to the damage done to Ukraine’s cities, towns and civilian population.
Anyone listening to Biden address the troops or the press knows that he’s cognitively impaired to the point he embarrasses the United States. Certainly members of the EU and NATO know that the president’s impairments render him an unreliable wartime partner. “The fact of the matter is you are the finest—this is not hyperbole. You’re the finest fighting force in the history of the world . . . “ Biden said, rerpeating himself like a broken record. Biden’s aids clearly have problems limiting his public remarks, all showing he’s unfit for duty. Biden plans for a photo-op with Ukrainian refugees in Poland, underscoring the humanitarian crisis cause by the war. There’s nothing coming from the White House about urgent ceasefire talks or eventual peace talks. Zelensky only talks about getting more U.S. and NATO weapons, something that won’t play well with the Kremlin.
U.S. allies in the EU and NATO don’t understand the extent to which the Ukraine War is run out of the White House. Putin’s recent pivot to focus on Donbass suggest that he’s done enough damage to Ukraine’s cities and towns to focus now on securing the peoples republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Zelensky claims that since Putin’s March 1, 2024 annexation of Crimea, over 14,000 Ukrainian citizens and military have died in a bloody conflict in Donbass. Pivoting to Donbass, Putin puts the onus back on Biden and Zelensky to fight the Russian Federation to the death or find a face-saving way for both sides to end the conflict. Biden and Zelensky already declared victory, because it’s clear that Zelensky will be left in power. With most the deaths in Ukraine coming from Donbass, Biden and Zelensky must recalibrate the mission, asking whether the costs justify the means.
