House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 82, led a Congressional delegation including Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), Jason Crow (D-Co.), Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) and Bill Keating (D-Mass.), to visit Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodynyr Zelensky to Kiev. Pelosi is the highest ranking U.S. official to visit Ukraine since the war started Feb. 24, raising questions why 79-year-old President Joe Biden and 56-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris haven’t visited. Obviously the security situation around Kiev is safe enough for Pelosi and her Democrat delegation, going the Kiev to tell Zelensky to hang in there until the war is over. “You are all welcome,” Zelensky told Pelosi and the delegation, knowing the Congress just approved $33 billion in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, far more than any other country.
Zelensky received 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 68-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin April 24, promising to continue the fight against the Russian Federation. “This is a struggle of freedom against tyranny,” said Schiff, repeating the same talking points as Zelensky. Zelensky changes his talking points daily to encourage more help by the U.S. and NATO, frequently criticizing the lack of U.S. or NATO troops or setting up a no-fly-zone. Zelensky talks one day about saving democracy, another day about stopping genocide. He’s used every excuse to solicit more military and humanitarian support for Ukrane. Schiff thinks he can sell the American public on preserving freedom in Ukraine. Crow, a veteran, said he has three areas of focus in Ukraine: “Weapons, weapons and weapons,” showing that the armed struggle in Ukraine is now against the Russian Federation.
Pelosi and her delegation said nothing about peace efforts now underway in Istanbul to end the war. Not a single hint of any interest in ceasefire talks. “Let me speak from myself: Do not be bullied by bullies,” Pelosi told Zelensky. “If they are making threats, you cannot back down,” Pelosi said, speaking for Biden that the U.S. will not back down against the Russian Federation. Zelesnky thanked the U.S. delegation on Twitter for “helping protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of our state. The U.S. is leading strong support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian aggression.” We’ll win, and we’ll win together,” Zelensky said. As long as Biden’s president, the U.S. gives unconditional support to Ukraine to stop the Russian Federation from continuing to bully its neighbors in Eastern Europe. Biden and Zelensky go full steam ahead in their proxy war against the Russian Federation.
If you listen to the White House or Kiev, they’re winning the war against Putin, citing horrific Russia casualties around 24,000 and destruction of much of the Russian army’s war-making hardware. If you look at video from the news media, Ukraine looks like its been reduced to rubble. So it’s difficult to believe that anyone’s winning anything. You’d think that Pelsoi’s Congressional delegation would urge Zelensky in the strongest possible terms to take the Istanbul ceasefire and peace talks seriously. No one in the European Union [EU] wants to see war on the European Continent. Biden and Pelosi have dug the U.S. into a long-term proxy war against the Russian Federation. With no talk of peace talks, it’s clear that the Ukraine War morphed into a U.S. proxy war against the Kremlin. Zelensky appreciates all the U.S. cash-and-arms because he government is broke, unable to pay its civil servants.
Pelosi left Ukraine for a quick visit with Polish President Andrzej Duda, who’s become a strong ally to the U.S. during the Ukraine War. Poland’s conservative government bucked EU trends on refugees during the eight-year U.S. proxy war against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Duda refused EU quotas for Syrian refugees but have stepped up taking over 3 million Ukrainian refugees. Poland has a long history of using Ukrainian worker in Poliand, a neighboring county with a rich Christian tradition, unlike Syria primarily home to Shiite Muslims. But since the Ukraine War, Poland has cooperated strongly with the U.S., largely because they fear Russian blowback from supporting the U.S. war in Ukraine. Poland serves as a logistics point for the delivery of U.S. and NATO arms in Ukraine, prompting warnings from the Kremlin, telling Poland to stop assisting the U.S. war effort.
Pelosi’s Congressional delegation came with the exact wrong message about the Ukraine War, giving Zelensky a blank check on arms and aid. If the Ukraine Was has any prospects of ending, it’s going to be at the peace table where both sides decide to negotiate and end to the conflict. “We will win, and we’ll win together,” Zelensky told Pelosi, show no interest at all in Istanbul peace talks. Unless there’s pressure on both warring factions, including the U.S., the war has no end in sight. Biden and Zelensky think they’re going to weaken the Russian military and possibly topple Putin. With those kinds of aims, it’s no wonder that Pelosi’s delegation said nothing about peace talks. Germany, France and other influential members of the EU needs to tell Biden that the have no interest in fighting WW III on the European Continent. Peace talks are the only answer for the Ukraine War.
