President Joe Biden, 79, showed yesterday in a speech in Warsaw why he’s not fit for duty as president of the United States. Less than 18 months into his presidency, Europe has a new war and the U.S. economy is rocked by runaway inflation driven by energy shortages from White House climate policies. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” told the world yesterday, only to have all the president’s men-and-women walk back his comments. Biden’s refused to commit troops on the ground in Ukraine, prompting Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky to tell the press today that the West has failed Ukraine, not doing enough to help defeat the Russian Federation. Zelensky’s comments are precisely why the U.S., European Union [EU] and NATO should not be involved with Ukraine’s problems. Biden has made Ukraine his war, running it out of the White House.
Zelensky has a right to be confused by the U.S. and Western response to the war, largely supplying weapons but deciding to keep any U.S. or NATO forces off the ground or in the air. Zelensky has watched Ukraine pummeled by Russian air strikes, hoping to spin the war as a Russian defeat because Putin won’t be drawn into a ground war trap. U.S. officials characterized the war as a Ukrainian victory, keeping Putin from taking over Kiev in 48 hours, something so preposterous, only bound to give Ukraine a pyrrhic victory. In realy, Ukraines major towns and cities have been laid to waste after 32 days of combat. Yet Zelensky must excuse his poor decision-making by claiming victory because Russian hasn’t changed regimes in Kiev. Putin’s mission was always to demilitarize Ukraine, not to install a puppet regime. Yet Zelensky blames the West for not rescuing Ukraine.
Zelensky keeps hearing Biden say the U.S. “has his back,” while, at the same time, saying he won’t commit troops or a no-fly-zone to Ukraine. Zelensky couldn’t contain his frustration today, blaming the West for lacking the courage to give Ukraine more military help. “I think we must do everything to avoid the situation getting out of hand. I wouldn’t use these kinds of words because I’m still in talks with President Putin. If we want to do that, can’t escalate either in words or actions,” French President Emmanuel Macron said today. Macron reminds Zelensky that the EU wants no part of his war with Russia. Biden has shocked EU leaders by calling for Putin’s removal, though walked back by White House officials. But listening to Biden yesterday exposed what the actual U.S. and Ukrainian plan of getting rid of Putin, not simply defending Ukraine’s sovereignty.
No one forced Zelensky to continue the fight now 32 days, knowing that he’s allowing the Russian Federation, with its superior air power, to lay Ukraine to waste. Putin offered clear conditions for ending the conflict, prompting rejections from Washington and Kiev. So if Biden and Zelensky wanted to end the conflict, they could sit down with Putin and draw up new security measures, something Putin wanted before the war began Feb. 24. Zelensky can’t fathom how a nation like Ukraine was not worthy of NATO membership, since they’ve been asking to join the trans-Atlantic Alliance since 2014 when Putin annexed the Crimean Peninsula. Zelensky openly lamented the fact that he hasn’t gotten the fighter jets and anti-aircraft defense systems needed to control the skies in Ukraine. But whatever he’s gotten from the U.S. and NATO, it hasn’t been enough to fight the Kremlin.
Zelensky’s been so swept up in Western propaganda about his “heroism” that he can’t see how he’s made horrible decisions for his country. Instead of sitting down with his Russian counterparts and figuring a way out of the war, Zelensky continues to tell Putin that he will not surrender one inch of Ukrainian territory. For eight years Zelensky, and his predecessor Petro Poroshenko, surrendered Crimea and the Eastern-most province of Donbass, home to the people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Both areas are not currently under Kiev control. So Zelensky refuses to surrender Ukraiina territory he’s already lost. Zelensky’s now saying with the U.S. giving Ukraine $14 billion, he cannot use the Western Alliance to try to get back lost Ukrainian territory. But the reality is he hasn’t controlled Crimea and the Donbass region for eight years, claiming he lost 14,000 Ukrainian military and civilians.
Zelensky finds himself as Ukraine’s wartime leader completely confused with his mission in the Ukraine War. No one in the EU or NATO believes Zelensky’s story that Putin aims to knock off other European countries, with Ukraine just being the first. Zelensky has tried to sell the Ukraine War was a fight for freedom in Europe, when in fact it’s simply his problem with the Russian Federation. Had Zelensky not pushed for NATO memberships nor allowed the U.S. and NATO to arm Ukraine to the teeth against Putin’s objections, he wouldn’t be at war with the Russian Federation. Zelensky got too big for his britches, miscalculated, fantasized that the U.S. and NATO would do his battles, leaving his country now in ruins. He’s not battling for Ukraine’s sovereignty, because he didn’t have it in Crimea and Donbass. Biden’s empty words have given Zelensky the wrong message.
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