Pentagon Spokesman John Kirby, 59, teared up at his Pentagon briefing on the Ukraine War, complaining that no rational actor, referring to 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin, would commit the kind of atrocities seen in Ukraine. Yet, if you think about it, what’s the Pentagon doing giving briefings on Ukraine, when, if you ask Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky, it’s Ukraine’s War. But Kirby’s briefing exposes the real story behind the Ukraine War that it runs out of the White House. No one in the White House, U.S. press or Pentagon wants to admit the U.S. funds a proxy war using Ukrainian fighters to battle the Russian Federation. Biden said March 26 in Warsaw, Poland that Putin could no longer remain in power. When Biden’s remarks were followed up by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.April 26, Austin confirmed the U.S. was at war with Russia.
Government and the press in Europe, Asia and around the planet, hasn’t caught up with what’s changed in Ukraine. What started as a war to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity has morphed into a U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation. If Putin fights in Ukraine with new ferocity, it’s because he knows that the U.S. wages war against the Kremlin. “It’s hard to look at what he’s doing in Ukraine, what his forces are doing in Ukraine, and think that any ethical, moral individual could justify that. It’s difficult to look at,” Kirby said with his voice trembling. “Sorry,” Kirby said for getting emotional, saying it is “difficult to look at some of the images and imagine that any well-thinking, serious mature leader would do that. So I can’t talk to his psychology, but I thin we can all speak to his depravity,” blaming Putin for the destruction and carnage.
Krby says nothing about how Biden decided to go after the Russian military, degrading it to the point it cannot wage war. If that doesn’t sound like a declaration of war, then what does? Kirby talks of the horrors in Ukraine but the White House has made things worse by taking the war to a new level. Going after the Russian military speaks volumes of what’s at stake now in Ukraine. U.S. and Ukrainian officials like to talk about Russian war crimes but don’t admit that the war has morphed into a U.S. proxy war against the Russian Federation. Kirby finds himself emotional because the White House does nothing to seek a genuine ceasefire and eventual peace talks using the Istanbul format. Biden and Zelensky have shown no interest in Istanbul, only in prosecuting the now $33 billion proxy war against the Russian Federation. Ending the war should be Biden’s top priority.
All the demonization of Putin leads to Biden’s new mission of degrading the Russian military to the point it can’t wage war. “It’s hard to square [Putin’s] let’s just call it what it is, his B.S., that this is about Nazism and Ukraine, and it’s about protecting Russian in Ukraine and it’s about defending Russian national interests when none of them—none of them—were threatened by Ukraine,” Kirby said, spewing a whole lot of platitudes. Forget about some of Putin’s original excuses for war. Kirby knows that Putin warned Biden Dec. 24, 2021, that if they couldn’t renegotiate new security arrangement in Ukraine and Eastern Europe, he would be forced to take “military-technical measures” at some point. Does Kirby think Putin’s wrong, as he said recently, that the Ukraine war is the long-awaited U.S. war against Russia? Kirby pretends the U.S. mission hasn’t changed when it’s now a U.S. proxy war against Russia.
Kirby can get emotional or cry all he wants but he needs to level with the American public that the war aim has changed to degrading the Russian military or getting rid of Putin. Kirby can cry about war crimes but clearly Biden has thrown down the gauntlet making the war far worse than it was. Putin no longer fights for territory in Ukraine, he’s now fighting for his survival against the U.S. military. “You’ve heard the president call him a war criminal, so I don’t think the president thinks President Putin as somebody who is a mode in the world. He views him as a pariah and somebody who is guilty of other crimes and of genocide,” Kirby said. So if Putin’s really that bad as Biden says, why has he refused to commit U.S. troops to toppling the Russian Federation? Kirby rubber-stamps the White House subterfuge, refusing to level with the American public of what’s at stake in Ukraine.
Kirby has done everything possible to build public support of Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against the Russian Federation. Demonzing Putin, acknowledging his depravity plays well in the Democrat-controlled press but doesn’t find any solution for moving the conflict to Istanbul for its resolution. Clearly, as Austin stated in Ramstein, Germany, the U.S. continues to “weaken” the Russian military, keeping the heat of Putin and the Russian Federation. Kirby’s tears could be genuine but his smoke blowing about the new revised mission in Ukraine prevents the American public from the real stakes in Ukraine. If things continue on the same path, the post WW II has never been closer to WW III, possibly nuclear war. “Russia is worse than ISIS in the sale and ruthlessness of crimes committed,” Zelensky said, continuing the same hyperbole that puts Europe in the crossfire of widespread devastation.
