Speaking at the Shangri-La Security Dialogue in Singapore, Malaysia, 69-year-old U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the audience that the backs the Ukraine War to defend the rules based order, something now threatened by 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Austin said nothing about how Ukraine under 44-year-old commander-in-chief Volodymyr Zelesnsky has lost all of Ukraine’s Black Sea coastline, essentially partitioning and land-locking the country. All the sophisticated weapons and cash given to Ukraine has resulted in Ukraine losing over 20% of the country to the Russian Federation. Austin thanked other Pacific Rim countries for supplying arms to Ukraine to battle what he calls the “oppressor” country does not threaten the rules-based world order. Austin said nothing about the U.S. supplying Ukraine unlimited lethal weapauons against Russia’s objections.
Austin spewed the White House talking points after 15 weeks of war that the world order is threatened by the Russian Federation. “It’s a preview of possible world chaos and turmoil that none of us would want to live in,” Austin said, making the case for war against the Russian Federation. Yet not one Western or Asian country backing Ukraine’s War against the Russian Federation commits any troops. If Austin really believed Putin threatened the world’s “rules-based order,” why hasn’t one country committed any troops to help Ukraine? Whether the Western or Asian allies don’t want WW III, Putin has been demonized by79-year-old President Joe Biden as a menace, butcher and war criminal. So, if Biden really believed that Putin was the second coming of Adolf Hitler, why hasn’t Biden committed any U.S. troops? Because no one believes White House demonization of Putin.
Austin attended the Dialogue in Singapore in person, listening to Zelensky on a Zoom link to conference attendees. “I am grateful for your support . . . but this support is not only for Ukraine, but for you as well,” Zelensky said, echoing the White House message that the Ukraine war is about protecting democracy from totalitarian tyranny. “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is what happens when oppressors trample the rules that protect us all. It’s what happens when big powers decide their imperial appetites matter more than the peaceful rights of their neighbors. And it’s a preview of possible world chaos and turmoil that none of use would want to live in,” said Austin, making the case for war against the Kremlin. Austin’s words repeat White House talking point justifying the indiscriminate arming of Ukraine against the Russian Federation. Austin doesn’t believe what he’s saying.
Russia is not an imperial power grab against Ukraine: It’s Putin’s way to telling the West, including the U.S. and NATO, that enough-is-enough when it comes to arming Ukraine. Putin asked Biden for months to renegotiate the security arrangement in Ukraine and Eastern Europe in the run up to the Feb. 24 invasion. Biden told Putin his ideas were all non-starters, rejecting all his requests for new security arrangements. Finally, on Dec. 24, 2021, Putin said Russia would be forced to take “special military measures” to offset threat to Russian national security. Even Pope Francis admitted May 3 that NATO probably caused the Ukraine War. Yet if you listen to Biden, Austin or 59-year-old Secretary of State Anton Blinken, the U.S. did nothing to provoke the war. Austin and Zelensky’s statements about the Ukraine War protecting democracy in Europe and elsewhere are pure rubbish.
Biden and Austin don’t want the world to know the extent of Ukraine’s losses in since battling the Russian Federation. When it comes to Ukraine preserving its sovereignty and territory integrity, Russia controlled only Donetsk, Luhansk and the Crimean Peninsula before the Feb. 24 start of the war. Shortly after the war started, Putin offered Zelensky and off-ramp, accepting Donetsk and Luhansk as independent of Kiev and recognize Crimea a Russian territory. Because Russia controlled all the territory before the war, Zelensky had nothing to lose accepting Putin’s offer. But Biden and Zelensky rejected ceding “one inch” of Ukraine’s territory to the Kremlin, instead launching a full-scale war against the Kremlin. So, 15 weeks into the war, Russia now controls over 20% of Ukraine’s territory, taking all of the strategic Black Sea coastline, partitioning the country.
Speaking at the Dialogue in Singapore, Austin spews the same White House platitudes about fighting against totalitarian tyranny to save democracy in Ukraine and elsewhere. Putin’s war in Ukraine is not about Russia’s imperialism, it’s a border dispute with Ukraine who continues to take unlimited arms-and-cash from Washington. Whatever prospects for peace, Ukraine has little leverage left because Putin controls so much of Ukraine’s Black Sea coast. All the fighting with Russia has decimated Ukraine’s infrastructure, killed unnecessary civilians and driven over 10 million into refugee status. Instead of pushing the conflict to the peace table, the White House does just the opposite, continuing to supply Ukraine more deadly weapons to keep the war going. Biden said he’s giving Ukraine more lethal weapons to help Zelensky’s bargaining position in any peace talks: What rubbish.
