Talking to his comrade-in-arms CNN’s Jake Tapper, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he thought that 79-year-old President Joe Biden should visit Ukraine. “I think he will,” Zelensky told Tapper, talking like Biden’s running the Ukraine War from the White House. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, 72, said the Kremlin believes the current war in Ukraine is a U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation. For Zelensky, it’s important for PR value to see the one who’s funding the war to visit, regardless of whether Biden risks life-and-limb. Zelensky has no problem moving from place-to-place or sleeping in a different place every night but Zelensky thinks it’s OK for Biden to do the same. Zelensky announced today that the Russian Federation was fully engaged in the battle of Donbass, seeking a land bridge between Donbass and Crimea.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson already made the symbolic visit to Ukraine, showing unequivocal support for Kiev. “It’s a decision of course,” Zelensky told Tapper. “And about the safety situation, it depends. But I think he’s a leader of the United States and that’s why he should come here to se e,” Zelensky said, not realizing Biden is double his age. Zelensky thinks he’s running the war on global TV, blaming Putin for unparalleled brutality, calling Russian President a “butcher” and a “war criminal,” all because Ukraine wants the Russian Federation to stop spreading tall tales to the media. If you ask Zelensky on any give day, he’s battling Russia to protect democracy around the planet. On another day, he’s trying to stop Russian genocide. When it suits Zelensky, Ukraine is fighting to protect the European Union and NATO from a Russian takeover of Europe.
Biden’s in political hot water in the United States with any approval around 40%, all because he’s thrown his weight around the Ukraine War, acting like he’s prosecuting the war against the Russian Federation. On a given day, Biden expresses optimism that he can get rid of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On another day, he’s saying that the U.S. must protect Ukraine because it’s saving Western democracy. Visiting Ukraine would give Zelensky a shot in the arms, especially from his No. One benefactor. Biden and U.S. Congress backed Ukraine to the tune of $16 billion, giving the southern Slavic nation all the support in the world. Before the Feb. 24 war, Zelensky infuriated Putin asking for NATO membership. When that didn’t happen, Biden decided unilaterally to arm Ukraine to the teeth, something onerous to the Kremlin. Yet Biden went right ahead giving Ukraine unlimited arms-an-cash.
Biden’s approval ratings are so low White House strategists are asking him to stop obsessing over the Ukraine War. Americans on both sides of the aisle, don’t like his management of the economy, with inflation raging out of control, with the Federal Reserve Board hiking interest rates practically guaranteeing recession in 2023. Biden’s managing of domestic policy has left many citizens with buyer’s remorse, wishing they had made a different decision in 2020. Were it not for the media’s hatred of former President Donald Trump, he might have gotten a second term. Looking as spiraling fuel prices and runaway inflation, vast number of Midterm voters are starting to look for a big change in November. Biden’s obsession with the Ukraine War backfired on him, thinking originally that it would help his sagging approval ratings. Biden has gotten no war dividend for his backing of Ukraine.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said yesterday on CBS “Face the Nation” that it was time for the U.S. and NATO to commit troops to Ukraine. Biden has never explained why he adopted Ukraine as a U.S.-like territory, when there’s no obvious national security significance to Ukraine. Biden said on more than one occasion that he would no commit troops to Ukraine because it would start WW III on the European Continent, possibly a nuclear war. Zelensky has practically stood on his head trying to coax the U.S and NATO to commit troops and a no-fly-zone, regardless of the consequences to the EU and NATO. Zelensky wants Biden to visit Ukraine to have the symbolic U.S. approval when the rest of Europe is reluctant to push the war to the brink. Putin already believes he’s fighting a war against the U.S., something the EU doesn’t want to see shifted to Brussels.
Biden’s visit to Ukraine won’t happen anytime soon unless there’s a decisive victory against Putin in Donbass. Before the war, Russian separatists controlled the people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Zelensky has continued the conflict in Donbass inherited from his predecessor former Ukraine’s 56-year-old President Petro Poroshenko. Ukraine claims that about 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have died battling in Donbass for the last eight years. Why Zelensky decided now is the time to take back Donbass is anyone’s guess. He certainly hasn’t attempted a takeover of Crimea, where Putin annexed the region after a Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed, pro-Western coup toppled the Kremlin-friendly government of Viktor Yanukovych. All the problems in Ukraine today stem from the coup, where the new Kiev government was about to kick Russia out of Crimea.
