President Joe Biden, 79, told a press conference in Madrid after a NATO security summit that the American public should be prepared for higher gas prices for the indefinite future. Telling the American public the bad news also signals to the European Union [EU] that Biden’s unending proxy war against the Russian Federation in Ukraine is also costing everyone. No one, other than 45-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron, has told parties to end the war, go to the peace table and figure out an equitable solution. Biden has painted himself in the deadly corner in Ukraine, spending U.S. tax dollar as unprecedented rates, guaranteeing the U.S. and world faces recession for the foreseeable future. Biden’s message in Madrid tells the American public that he won’t give up in Ukraine until he defeats the Russian Federation. Biden’s delusional thinking needs a dose of reality before he takes down the West.
When will Biden stop believing his own propaganda that 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks to take over all of Europe, or at least some of his old Soviet satellites? Putin has made clear conditions for ending the Ukraine conflict, something he openly put out there three months ago. Before the Feb 24 Ukraine invasion, Putin already controlled the Donbas region of southeastern Ukraine plus the Crimean Peninsula. Ukraine’s 45-year-old neophyte President Volodymyr Zelensky told Putin after the invasion that Ukraine would fight for every inch of sovereign territory. Well, Ukraine didn’t wage war to reclaim Crimea or the Donbas region before but with billions in U.S. backing, he wants to continue fighting. Biden knows that everyday that goes by Ukraine loses more infantry and civilians, destroys more infrastructure and loses more sovereign land.
Biden told Europe he has no plans to stop the wasteful war that has wrecked the GDP of the U.S. and EU., leaving both financial blocs reeling. Biden said the American public should pay high gasoline prices for “as long as it takes, so Russian cannot in fact defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine. Biden presents no facts to the EU or anyone else about Putin’s intentions to take over other EU countries. Putin knows that Ukraine is currently not part of the EU or NATO, a country the U.S. and EU refuses to commit troops on the battlefield. Zelensky has asked the U.S. and EU to commit to a no-fly-zone and troops but has so far refused. Zelensky has told the U.S. and EU that had they intervened earlier Ukraine would not have lost sovereign territory to the Kremlin. Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde warned that the EU was losing its patience with the Ukraine War because of its damage to GDP.
Biden thinks he can drag down the EU and the U.S., all because he’s speculating about what Putin plans to do next. Well, if Biden thinks Putin is really such a menace in the future he can call up NATO’s Article 5 and go to war, a real war involving U.S. and NATO troops and air power. What kind of a crazy war has Biden committed to paying Ukraine to fight a proxy war against the Russian Federation? It’s hard to believe no one in the EU or NATO has said to Biden, enough is enough. Taking about taking down the Russian Federaiton by funding an endless proxy war doesn’t do anyone any good, largely because it won’t work now or in the future, no matter how many advanced weapons systems are given to Zelensky. Putin has time on his side because is economy is already in shambles. U.S. and EU officials don’t want to see the economy suffer because Biden can’t figure out what to do.
Biden continues to fund the bankrupt Ukraine government and fund the war, costing the U.S. Treasury over $54 billion. Everyday that goes by, Ukraine loses more people, destroys more infrastructure and drives more citizens into refugee status. “You can already see in the media that interest is going down, and that is also affecting the public, and the public is affecting the politicians,” Linde said, referring to the public getting tired of the inflation sweeping the EU. “So it is our responsibility to keep Ukraine and what Russia is doing high up on our agenda,” referring to the minimal steps by Biden to go to the peace table and resolve the crisis. Putin sees his power threatened by the U.S. and sees no end in sight to the war. “The work is going smoothly and rhythmically,” Putin said about Russian forces making progress in Ukraine. Biden and Zelensky pretend they’re winning.
Former U.N. Amb. Smantha Power, now head of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said that Ukraine is burning about $5 to $6 billion a month on prosecuting the war, with most the cost endured by the U.S. Power said “and that is a staggering burn rate,” reminding the White House and elected officials that the clock is ticking on Ukraine’s lack of progress. Zelensky wants more weapons-and-cash from the West but it’s clear that his government produces nothing at this point. Biden thinks he and Zelensky can break the Russian military, something so preposterous, so misguided, so dangerous that it’s plunging the U.S. and EU into recession. Biden worries about Putin will do next. But he needs to worry about an unsustainable money pit driving the U.S. and EU into recession. Whatever Putin does in the future, that’s a bridge the U.S. and NATO must take.
